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NYC’s ‘Eric Adams Show’ heads for a final curtain, with echoes of another New Yorker more focused on style than policy

New York City Mayor Eric Adams leaves after appearing at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Court House in New York on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024....

‘Knowledge of self’: How a key phrase from Islam became a pillar of hip-hop

The popular phrase ‘knowledge of self’ – invoked by numerous rappers who adhere to Islam – is nearly a millennium old. Paul Hawthorne for Getty...

The first televised World Series spurred America’s television boom, 75 years ago

An estimated 3.5 million Americans viewed the first televised World Series at bars, restaurants and storefronts. Bettmann/Getty Images by James Walker, Saint Xavier University Boston Red Sox...

How Vin Scully scored his Dodgers gig at 22 years old

Barber called Scully, pictured in a broadcast booth prior to a Los Angeles Dodgers game, ‘the son I never had.’ Sporting News via Getty Images by...

Sanders cheers strikers as 39K Verizon workers walk out

NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders cheered on striking Verizon workers Wednesday after 39,000 landline and cable employees walked off the...

Esperanza Spalding takes new direction on new album

NEW YORK (AP) — Esperanza Spalding flowed across the stage as she played her fretless electric bass at Brooklyn's BRIC House, clad in her...

Infant dies when mother leaves to go stripping

A woman faces a slew of possible felony charges when her toddler died at home alone when she went to go work at strip club.…

#OscarsSoWhite…'Revenant' leads noms with 12, only White actors again

The brutal 1820s frontier revenge thriller "The Revenant" landed a leading 12 nominations for the 88th annual Academy Awards, while the acting categories were...

1st African-American actor to play Valjean on Broadway dies

NEW YORK (AP) _ Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean in ``Les Misérables'' on...

MTV causes stir with film on White people

NEW YORK (AP) _ One of the challenges for makers of the MTV documentary ``White People'' was getting folks to talk about race when...

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