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This year's debate over #OscarsSoWhite is once again highlighting Hollywood's race problem, but it's not just African-Americans who should be concerned.

Christine Carugati, 18, of Langhorne, Pennyslvania started getting recruited to play college lacrosse the summer after the ninth grade. You heard that right -- when she just finished her freshman year in high school.

As one of the greatest female racecar drivers of her era, Anna Maria Peduzzi is an enigma. Not only is she all-but-unknown outside historic motoring circles -- and Italian ones at that -- it's nigh impossible to even confirm the date of her death. She was a flame that burned bright on the track with skills to compete with the best international drivers -- male or female -- yet she mostly chose to compete in races only within her native Italy. She was the first woman known to have raced for Scuderia Ferrari -- the most successful racing team in history -- but finding good portraits of her is no simple task.

Every year the debates rage on: Why did that movie or actor win an Oscar? But there is a method to the awards show madness.

Today, in cities across the nation, streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. are often an example of what King spent his life fighting against.

Jackson McGrady Smith Jr. remembers the first time streetcars rolled through the streets of Atlanta, connecting his African-American neighborhood on Auburn Avenue to the seat of white leadership downtown.

As is typical of our time, over the past few months, many newscasters have used the words apocalypse or apocalyptic to evoke the negative implications of events as diverse as the threat of 'the looming asteroid threat', the advance of ISIS, the American housing market, global concerns over mass migration, the continuing war in Syria, the 'Brexit,' and even floods in the North of England (now subsided) and the so-called music streaming wars.

Almost 48 years after his assassination, new footage of Dr. King is being revealed.

CNN'S Holly Firfer has the details about scoliosis.. what it is and what you can do.

When writers and filmmakers depict the future, they often include one strange detail: men and women dressing alike.

NASA has set up a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to detect and track potentially hazardous objects (PHOs), including asteroids and comets.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. knew something about tough moments. His life was marked by setbacks, terrible defeats personal depression. How it bounced back could help those today who are despondent about President Trump's election.

You spend about half of your waking hours at your job. While certain jobs like construction or manual labor have clear hazards, you can't assume that if you are clocking time in an office environment that it's a healthy place to be. Many occupations deliver stress, sedentary behavior, and unhealthy habits along with the paycheck, which can take their toll both physically and mentally.

The late, great David Bowie will be remembered as much for his image as his sound. But the two were of course symbiotically connected.

Time and again, David Bowie has confounded us with enigmatic acts of gender transgression.

In "Austin Powers," Dr. Evil, unfrozen after 30 years, schemes to steal a nuclear warhead and hold the world ransom for ... ONE MILLION DOLLARS! His subordinate delicately informs him that "a million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days."

CNN's Nick Valencia takes a look at the men who could replace 'El Chapo' Guzman atop the Sinaloa drug cartel.

The Netflix documentary series "Making a Murderer" has become a national obsession, with many people now believing there has been an injustice in the trial of Steven Avery.