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With ‘White Christmas,’ Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby helped make Christmas a holiday that all Americans could celebrate

The Conversation - December 23, 2023

After Irving Berlin, left, penned ‘White Christmas,’ he pegged Bing Crosby as the ideal singer for what would become a holiday classic. Irving Haberman/IH Images...

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Fatal shots fired inside T.I.’s concert venue in NYC

Editor - May 26, 2016

Gunfire erupted inside of T.I.’s concert venue in Manhattan before the rap mogul had a chance to take the stage on Wednesday evening. Four people…

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Prince kicking Kim Kardashian off stage goes viral … again

Editor - April 23, 2016

A video that went viral five years ago is going viral again. That’s because it’s a clip of Prince kicking Kim Kardashian off the stage. Kardashian…

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Sanders cheers strikers as 39K Verizon workers walk out

Courier Newsroom - April 14, 2016

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

Sports

How Donald Trump, with pizazz and bluster, took on the NFL

Courier Newsroom - February 8, 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was known in New York by 1984 as a flashy newcomer to Manhattan real estate. But football, not business,...

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Tyler Perry & stars from ‘The Haves and the Have Nots’ & ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ attend NY Press Luncheon

Editor - January 8, 2016

NEW YORK — Eyebrows were certainly raised when the two media and movie titans, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, joined forces to produce original programming…

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Oprah Winfrey responds to reports of ‘secret baby’

Editor - November 1, 2015

As you’ve probably learned already, Oprah Winfrey was approached by a seemingly strange man named Calvin Mitchell who claimed he was her secret son as…

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Michael Ealy and Sanaa Lathan host private Q&A for ‘The Perfect Guy’ in New York

Editor - September 12, 2015

Hollywood stars Sanaa Lathan and Michael Ealy took over Jay Z’s 40/40 Club in the Manhattan borough of New York City to chat with select…

Cover To Cover

Mockingbird sequel and real-life racist Jefferson

Courier Newsroom - July 19, 2015

The recent news that Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman novel reveals her To Kill A Mockingbird hero Atticus Finch to be a racist shocked the literary world. Actually,...

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