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‘Different type of service.’ Historic Miami churches get new spiritual life as arts spaces
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 29 minutes ago“When somebody walks in the front door, I don’t want them thinking about the presidential race...
Lady Gaga remembers Tony Bennett on anniversary of his death
BANG Showbiz via Yahoo Canada News· 2 hours ago'Straight ahead,' he'd say. He was an optimist, he believed in quality work AND quality life. "Plus,...
Community leader Riley switches to GOP
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.· 6 hours agoKenny Riley has been a leader of Owensboro’s Black community for multiple decades. He spent many years involved with the Daviess County NAACP chapter, including multiple terms as its president ...
Opinion: The freedom embedded in my family’s dreams became real 60 years ago
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 13 hours agoLonnie G. Bunch III recalls tense childhood family trips “down South.” Passage of the Civil Rights...
Biden praises longtime US Rep Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who died of cancer
The Canadian Press via Yahoo Canada News· 16 hours agoLongtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who helped lead federal efforts to protect women...
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas dies at 74
ABC News via Yahoo Canada News· 19 hours agoSheila Jackson Lee, the longtime U.S. representative from Texas, has died, according to a statement issued Friday night from her family. The...
US representative Sheila Jackson Lee dies aged 74
Gazette & Herald, Ryedale· 1 day agoMs Jackson Lee, who had pancreatic cancer, died in Houston on Friday night with her family around her, her chief of staff confirmed. At the time, Ms Jackson Lee said: “The road ahead will not ...
Who are Kamala Harris’ parents? What to know about Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris
AOL· 1 day agoVice President Kamala Harris has opened up over the years about how her parents, and especially her mother, influenced and inspired her to pursue her dreams. “My mother was the first person ...
Opinion | Our Solution to the Crisis of Democracy
New York Times· 1 day agoDaron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James A. Robinson is a professor at the University of Chicago. Remember...
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Sweet Honey in the Rock vocalist and civil rights activist, dies at 81
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoThe daughter of a Baptist minister, at 16 she studied music at the Georgia HBCU Albany State, in the...
