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Travis Scott accused of violating Astroworld suits gag order

March 29, 2022 - 03:15 PM HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for some of those killed and injured during last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival alleged in court on Monday that rapper Travis Scott has violated a gag order issued in lawsuits they have filed in an effort to influence possible jurors and rebuil...

Oprah Winfrey to receive honorary PEN/Faulkner award

March 29, 2022 - 02:25 PM NEW YORK (AP) — For her championing of so many authors over the past quarter century, Oprah Winfrey is herself receiving a literary honor. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is giving Winfrey its inaugural Literary Champion award, a lifetime achievement prize for contributions to literacy and for in...

101-year-old man finally earns high school diploma

March 29, 2022 - 10:35 AM Nationwide — Merrill Pittman Cooper, an African American man from Jefferson County, West Virginia, has earned his high school diploma at 101-years old, finally making his lifelong dream come true. From 1934 to 1938, Cooper was a student at Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, ...

Will Smith strikes Chris Rock during the Oscars

March 27, 2022 - 10:05 PM (BAMM Network) - While on stage during the Oscars telecast, comedian Chris Rock made a joke about actress Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head, which did not appear to go over well with her husband and actor Will Smith. While presenting the award for best documentary, Rock joked, "Jada I love you, 'G...

Trump returns to Georgia confronting test of his grip on GOP

March 26, 2022 - 06:38 PM ATLANTA (AP) — In Donald Trump’s push to fundamentally reshape the Republican Party, few places are a higher priority than Georgia. The former president has issued highly-coveted endorsements in races ranging from governor to state insurance commissioner. His backing...

Louisiana court: Protest leader can be sued for cop’s injury

March 25, 2022 - 06:35 PM NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana police officer injured when violence broke out over the police killing of a Black man in Baton Rouge in 2016 has grounds to pursue a lawsuit against a protest organizer, Louisiana’s Supreme Court said Friday. The 6-1 opinion was not a ruling in a case, but...

iHeartMedia radio station refuses to play Black ads on-air

March 25, 2022 - 05:35 PM Nationwide — The largest media company in the nation is in hot water after Aaron Trimmer, the Program Director at KFYI 550 AM News Talk, a commercial radio station owned by iHeartMedia and licensed to serve the greater Phoenix Arizona area, blatantly refused to run ads on-air promoting a ...

New Orleans school board reverses little known ban on jazz

March 25, 2022 - 11:55 AM NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With its president saying it had racist origins, the New Orleans school board has unanimously reversed a little known but century-old ban on jazz in schools in a city which played a huge role in developing jazz and where it is still played nightly at various venues...

New Orleans schools chief finalists from all 3 U.S. coasts

March 24, 2022 - 12:30 PM NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Orleans Parish School Board has chosen an Alabama school superintendent, an official of a Los Angeles nonprofit and a Florida educational consultant as finalists for superintendent of a system made up largely of charter schools. A news release sent Wednesday identi...

Senate committee wraps up hearings on Jackson’s nomination

March 24, 2022 - 12:05 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — Legal experts praised Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her final day of Senate hearings on Thursday, with a top lawyers’ group saying its review found she has a “sterling” reputation, “exceptional” competence and is well qualified to sit on the Sup...

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Travis Scott accused of violating Astroworld suits gag order

Oprah Winfrey to receive honorary PEN/Faulkner award

101-year-old man finally earns high school diploma

Will Smith strikes Chris Rock during the Oscars

Trump returns to Georgia confronting test of his grip on GOP

Louisiana court: Protest leader can be sued for cop’s injury

iHeartMedia radio station refuses to play Black ads on-air

New Orleans school board reverses little known ban on jazz

New Orleans schools chief finalists from all 3 U.S. coasts

Senate committee wraps up hearings on Jackson’s nomination

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