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Film & TV
In ‘Ma Rainey,’ channeling the blues of August Wilson
NEW YORK (AP) — Like many of those involved in the making of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” it’s not easy…
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Politics
Biden picks Regan for EPA nominee, Haaland for interior head
President-elect Joe Biden says he had chosen North Carolina regulator Michael S. Regan as his nominee to lead the Environmental…
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Film & TV
Sundance Film Festival unveils slate for 1st virtual edition
A Questlove-directed documentary about the other major music event of the summer of 1969 and documentaries about the creators of…
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News
Home of civil rights icon Evers named as a national monument
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The historic home of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is now a national monument, the…
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News
‘B.A.P.S.’ star Natalie Desselle Reid dies at 53
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Natalie Desselle Reid, who starred alongside Halle Berry in the 1997 film “B.A.P.S.” and on the…
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Film & TV
John Boyega isn’t going to ‘take the money and shush’
NEW YORK (AP) — John Boyega is only 28, but being a professional actor of 10 years and a veteran…
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Books
Yusef Salaam writing memoir about his wrongful imprisonment
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault on a Central Park jogger has…
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Arts & Culture
Play ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ to get a Broadway run
NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Keenan Scott II’s play “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” a work about the outer and…
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Film & TV
In McQueen’s ‘Small Axe,’ an epic of West Indian heritage
NEW YORK (AP) — For Steve McQueen, bringing back the London of his childhood began with remembering the scents of…
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