Grace Jidoun

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On April 9, Amber Sherman was on her morning walk when she came across a “concerning” scene in the Orange Mound neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, she says. Cops had swarmed a house on Mount Vernon Road, and several police vehicles were parked in front. There was an open can of a popular energy drink sitting on the roof of one of the cars. Sherman — a local activist who has been appointed to the city’s new police reform task force — felt something was off.

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An all too familiar confrontation with two “Karens” was captured on video after a Black woman was stopped by police for simply taking photos on a public street in Washington. ShotbyBriah, an aspiring photographer, uploaded the clip to her TikTok on March 2, where it has already amassed more than 200,000 views. With Briah’s phone camera angled down toward the sidewalk, the video doesn’t depict the unhinged racist rant that you might expect.

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Martha Stewart has been showing us how to improve our homes (and ourselves) for decades and is famous for going all out in the kitchen. On NBC’s bold new cooking competition series Yes, Chef! — premiering on April 28 — you can watch her in action as she and co-host José Andrés school 12 rising stars on how to take their cooking to the next level. At 83, the iconic lifestyle expert hasn’t slowed down one bit and is feeling and looking great.

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It’s hard to beat the exhilaration of a good haunt  — and Dark Universe at Universal’s new Epic Universe theme park offers scares that are a class unto themselves. Whether you’re swept up in a monster revolt led by Dracula at Frankenstein’s ancestral estate or speeding through a wilderness of werewolves on a roller coaster, each attraction has its own distinct personality.

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Something has happened to Ben Affleck’s gray-tinged locks. At 52, the Oscar winner has been rocking the salt-and-pepper look for a few years now, but fans did a double take when he stepped out with dramatically darker hair and beard. Affleck debuted his surprising new look at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 2, where he was promoting his upcoming thriller, The “Accountant 2,” along with cast mates Jon Bernthal, Daniella Pineda, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson.