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Searching Through Kobe Bryant’s High School Years for Answers to His Controversial Legacy
In his new book ‘The Rise,’ Philadelphia sports columnist Mike Sielski recounts the early years of the complicated basketball phenom. He talks to MEL about trying to craft Kobe’s origin story and how he balances the athlete’s sexual-assault allegation with his brilliance on the court
Craic Boi Mental Is the Autistic Rapper Making Music for the Unsung
After learning he had autism, he decided to make it part of his music. Four year later, he's giving other autistic people a voice and speaking out for mental health
‘Can You Dig It?’: How ‘The Warriors’ Went from Menace to Society to Cult Classic
The 1979 Walter Hill film incited a media firestorm when it first released for the real-world violence it supposedly inspired, but in the four decades since, it’s been embraced for the super campy tale it was all along
Why White Supremacists Are Flocking to Crypto
New research shows how key far-right extremists have built considerable wealth using cryptocurrency — and why it’s intertwined in their ideology and conspiracies
