Month: July 2021

I prefer to use my own definition of “dabble”: “To have imagined yourself doing something so many times that you could probably do it if you tried.”

Music writer Carol Cooper reflects on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival documented in the new film Summer of Soul as a necessary catharsis for Black America from the collective losses of the 1960s.

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We are marking 50 years of NPR with a look back at stories from the archive. For this collection, we take a look at our best stories on novelist, poet and activist James Baldwin.

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The houseparty returns—in all its terrifying glory.

Tahmima Anam’s new novel is about a married couple who found a tech startup. The platform’s success turns the husband into a messiah figure — even though it was his wife who designed it.

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While a flurry of petitions and requests were made after the popstar’s testimony, no one has filed a petition to end the conservatorship.

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BONNERS FERRY, ID—Hailing the search-and-rescue mission a success, officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game confirmed Monday a park ranger had located and extracted a grizzly bear that had wandered off a hiking trail into dense and dangerous terrain. “It’s pretty easy to get turned around in these woods…

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Former President Trump has filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google, and their respective CEOs, claiming the platforms denied his rights to free speech, despite the First Amendment not prohibiting private companies from enforcing speech restrictions. What do you think?

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Helen Ellis, author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code, is back with her third book in five years — in which the connection with her longtime, close-knit female friends features prominently.

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