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The Academy Award-winning actress has always found inspiration and motivation via the spirit of boxing. That passion inspired her first film as a director, "Bruised," about a mixed martial arts fighter.
The Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry has always found inspiration and motivation via the spirit of boxing. That passion inspired her first film as a director, "Bruised," about a mixed martial arts fighter. Berry talks with "Sunday Morning" contributor Kelefa Sanneh about the lessons that MMA has taught her, and what she wants to impart upon her own children.
A Louisiana board voted unanimously on Friday to pardon Homer Plessy. His arrest in 1892 led to the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision that established the "separate but equal" doctrine, allowing states to maintain racial segregation laws. Descendants of both Plessy and Ferguson, the Louisiana judge who made the initial ruling, were in Friday's hearing. Michelle Miller spoke to them ahead of the ruling's 125th anniversary this year.
City officials believe a $3,500 annual payout to young people could help solve the "unbanked" problem plaguing the Big Easy.
"It appears that Jashyah was a runaway," acting Essex County Prosecutor Ted Stephens said Friday.
"I think COVID has just ripped the Band-Aid off of all of this, or multiple Band-Aids off of these disparities," said Dr. Javaka Moore.
In 1945, 855 women deployed to Europe to ensure troops received their correspondence from loved ones.
Maryland police officer Alexander Strachan is a classically trained violinist. He uses both his music and his badge to serve the public. Jan Crawford reports.
More than 45 million people in the U.S. owe nearly $2 trillion in student debt. Some colleges and universities are helping to reduce the ballooning loan crisis. Nate Burleson visited America's oldest HBCU to see how the clearing of some tuition debt is changing students' lives.
In its 138 years, New York's Metropolitan Opera had never staged an opera by a Black composer – until now. The jazz trumpeter talks about his opera, based on Charles Blow's memoir of growing up in small-town Louisiana in the 1970s and '80s.
