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Black cool is one of America’s great innovations, right up there with basketball, blue jeans, and the internet. It blends several forms—music, sports, fashion, speech, ways of cutting through space—into a wholly distinctive, globally influential aesthetic. There are French fashion houses in thrall to silhouettes first spotted in Harlem, Japanese men who have devoted their lives to spinning jazz records in Shibuya, and lavish murals of Tupac Shakur. as far apart as Sydney and Sierra Leone . Sean Combs, the disgraced record mogul, certainly did not invent Black cool. But like Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan before him—and like Jay-Z, Kanye West, and many others who followed— for a flicker of time he was its most formidable ambassador. That moment coincided with my adolescence, which is why the revelation of Combs's extravagant cruelties —the depravity with which he used all that he’d gained—has left my childhood friends and me feeling so betrayed. We ...

We all live for those jaw-dropping moments on Antiques Roadshow A guest stands with a beloved antique—often inherited from a family member—and listens as an appraiser unravels the story behind the item. The guest may suspect their object has some monetary value, but when the appraiser reveals it's worth $50,000, $100,000, or even—as happens on occasion—$500,000, they are left shocked and stunned, often speechless. But what happens next, once the cameras stop rolling? Do guests head home and immediately sell their ultra-valuable heirlooms? Do these items end up in museums or perhaps find their way into antique stores ? To uncover the answers, I spoke with a Roadshow executive producer for the inside scoop. When Marsha Bemko started working for Antiques Roadshow She assumed, like most people, that once guests learned their heirloom was worth six figures, they would promptly sell it. "Except they don't," Bemko says. "Most of what yo...