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ABOVE PHOTO: PRINCE PERFORMS DURING THE HALFTIME SHOW at the Super Bowl XLI football game in Miami, Feb. 4, 2007. The late pop superstar Prince will have a highway named after him, thanks to Minnesota lawmakers who voted Thursday, May 4, 2023, to dedicate the highway that runs past his Paisley Park museum and studios…

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By Constance Garcia-Barrio “The Davenports” by Krystal Marquis, published this past January, brims with romance, historic events, and family upheavals in 1910 Chicago. The novel opens in a department store as Olivia, eldest daughter of the Black, ultra-rich Davenport clan, picks up a bolt of silk whose fabric spills over her dark skin like “a…

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By Kharisma McIlwaine Women have been deeply immersed in the world of medicine long before modern medicine became a vocation. Documented cases of women being healers, herbalists, midwives and surgeons date back to the 7th century. Despite the many contributions of women in medicine, and specifically women who earned medical degrees in the U.S., we…

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ABOVE PHOTO: KENNEDY CENTER HONOREE OPERA SINGER GRACE BUMBRY sings the National Anthem at the Kennedy Center Honors gala in Washington on Dec. 6, 2009. Bumbry, 86, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black to sing at the Bayreuth Festival, died Sunday, May 7, 2023, at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according to…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers and others strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in a rally at Fox Plaza in Los Angeles’ Century City district on Nov. 9, 2007. Television and movie writers on Monday, May 1, 2023, declared that they will launch an industrywide strike for…

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ABOVE PHOTO: AN ADVERT FOR THE UPCOMING CORONATION OF BRITAIN’S KING CHARLES is outside Brilliant restaurant in Southall in London, Thursday, April 27, 2023. Across London, Britain’s diverse communities will come together to mark King Charles III’s coronation. In south London’s Brixton, musicians plan to parade through the streets entertaining crowds with a carnival set…

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associated press There is something for everyone at the movies this summer, both in theaters and streaming at home. In May, audiences can bid farewell to the Guardians of the Galaxy, go to Italy with Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen, or under the sea with Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy. June…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This combination of photos shows Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Chaka Khan who are among this year’s nominees for 2023 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. AP Photo/ Editorial credit-Chaka Khan: Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com By Mark Kennedy associated press NEW YORK — Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Chaka…

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By JAKE COYLE NEW YORK (AP) — Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications in a fight over fair pay in the streaming era. The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500…

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ABOVE PHOTO: LIZZO ARRIVES AT THE 65TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS on Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. In a concert Friday, April 21, 2023 in Knoxville, Tenn., Lizzo filled the stage with drag queens in a glittery protest against the state’s legislation designed to restrict drag performances in public. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)  ASSOCIATED PRESS…

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