Settle in with these weekend reads

A funeral home becomes a hub of Chicago's gun violence scourge

A mortician watches as teens plan for death. A mother plans to lay another child to rest. An embalmer tends to one of her own. CNN's Ray Sanchez visits a South Side funeral home

The academies offering kids a shot at K-pop stardom

Future K-pop idols follow a rigorous training regime from a very young age. But to become a true idol, they have to make it through ultra-competitive auditions. Here's a look at the schools that help aspiring superstars prepare.

What they unearthed started a fire that changed the world

Two New York Times reporters' first story about Harvey Weinstein's alleged wrongdoing was published one year ago Friday. This is the partially forgotten, partially never-been-told story of the early Weinstein articles and the profound impact they had.

Finding mass graves from a race massacre

The mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, can never make right the blight that is the city's 1921 race massacre, but finding the victims almost a century later could be an important step toward reconciliation.

These women are angry, engaged and ready to vote

After Donald Trump was elected, Kim Drew Wright went looking for other women who were just as angry as she was. She ended up starting a movement of women who hope to turn their red district blue.