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James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJames Lawson in the later years of the civil rights icon's life. (Michael Blackshire/Los Angeles...
Informal Complaints Were Made About Russell Brand’s Behavior 20 Years Ago, Banijay U.K. Report Finds
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 3 days agoInformal complaints concerning Russell Brand were made over 20 years ago on the set of his projects,...
Roy Harper’s Stormcock: a primer for revolutionary thinking that remains relevant
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHarper’s early albums were hallucinogenic things that skittered between poetry, revox-blues and...
Jerry West and the Burden of Being the Logo
The Ringer· 4 days agoIt was June 20, 2000, the morning after Kobe Bryant had leaped into Shaquille O’Neal’s arms, purple and gold confetti fluttering around them, in...
Remembrance: Nelson Mandela Was Sentenced To Life Imprisonment On June 12, 1964
Black America Web· 4 days agoThe decision for he and the ANC take up armed struggle, the man would argue, was not the...
The Truth Behind Claims Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow
Snopes via Yahoo News· 4 days agoExcept on July Fourth. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate." Writer Audre Lorde...
Iris Apfel's final book filled with personal, family photos to hit bookshelves in August
The Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 7 days agoIt's also a design book of her creative vision. It's a pattern book of never-before-seen textiles...
25 (Mostly) Essential Three Stooges Shorts
Vulture· 3 days agoIn the 1944 Three Stooges short “Crash Goes the Hash,” Moe, Larry, and Curly offend a snooty butler. “You remind me of the Three Stooges,” he chastises...
These Labor Day quotes celebrate the value of hard work and a job well done
The Today Show via AOL· 5 days agoWashington, “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography” “There is joy in work. There is no happiness except...
Former head of JPL and Voyager project scientist, dies at 88
The Register· 4 days agoObit Edward C Stone, the project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, has died....
