Kathryn Finney created a pipeline into the tech world to help Black and Latinx women founders become successful. Long before the Great Migration — the 20th-century exodus of millions of African Americans from the Deep South to the North — the opportunity to own land attracted many blacks to Oklahoma.

Oat milk? Soy milk? Something else? USA TODAY's Carly Mallenbaum taste tests milk alternatives that you should try in your favorite coffee. LOS ANGELES – You might not think the closing of one Starbucks with two others literally only hundreds of feet away would make much of a difference. But in the predominantly black, high-income Ladera Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, this Starbucks leaving is about more than having to get coffee somewhere else.

Watching Michaela Coel's outrageous Netflix comedy, Chewing Gum, it's hard to believe the 29-year-old Brit didn't set out to be a comedic actress. With her masterful use of physical comedy and ability to contort her gorgeous face into all kinds of shapes, you'd swear she worshiped at the altar of Gilda Radner.

The Dreamgirls star has joined season 3 of the Starz drama, and PEOPLE has an exclusive First Look at her as LaVerne "Jukebox" Ganner, a police officer who goes way back with some of the show's major players. "She excited me," the Tony Award-winning actress – who most recently starred in the History Channel remake of 1977's miniseries Roots – says about playing tough Jukebox.

Melissa McCarthy is so funny, so talented, and so beloved, she’s busted down many of Hollywood’s most entrenched barriers—and she’s just getting started. Melissa McCarthy a “girlfriend in your head” kind of celebrity. She’s the movie star we all want to laugh and shoot the shit with over beers.

From Obvious Child to Marcel the Shell, actress Jenny Slate consistently creates comedy that smart women want to watch. Here, the rebellious free spirit talks about her best friend, her butthole, and beating the odds. Jenny Slate is immediately disarming. Although she’s right on time for our interview, she rushes into Little Dom’s—a favorite restaurant in her L.A. neighborhood—like a big-haired whirlwind.

For decades the African American community has paid the highest price in the War on Drugs. According to a 2013 report by the American Civil Liberties Union, although blacks and whites partake in cannabis at about the same rates, black smokers are almost four times more likely to be arrested for possession.

It's illegal to be uninsured, so just get health insurance. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you're required to buy health insurance. If you don't enroll and go more than three months without insurance, you could face a penalty of $325 or 2 percent of your annual household income, whichever is higher.

The Roots’ charismatic bandleader Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson makes us want to stay up late.

Despite the success of his hit debut album "Thank Me Later," rapper Drake feels the record never showed his best work. The follow-up "Take Care," available in stores and online Tuesday, is another story. The 25-year-old rapper-singer, born Aubrey Drake Graham in Toronto, Canada rose to stardom under the tutelage of rapper Lil Wayne, who signed Drake to his Young Money record label in 2009, and "Take Care" tells of his rocket ride to rap stardom.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the popular 1979 film "Kramer vs. Kramer," Meryl Streep's character walked out on an unhappy marriage. More than 30 years on, Streep plays a middle-aged woman struggling hard to keep a sex-starved relationship together in her new movie "Hope Springs." The bittersweet comedy-drama brings Streep, 63, and Tommy Lee Jones, 65, together for the first time as a couple whose marriage has so lost its spark that they give each other a new cable TV subscription for their 31st wedding anniversary.

After a decade-long hiatus, the soulful jazz band led by Nigerian-born British singer Sade Adu, 53, returned to the stage with their "Bring Me Home" tour last year. And for those who couldn't make it to a show, there is now an album and film. This week, Sade released "Bring Me Home - Live 2011," a live CD and concert film directed by frequent collaborator Sophie Muller shot over several stops on the tour.