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R&B Hall of Fame headed to small Mississippi Delta town

The National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame is coming to the small Mississippi Delta town of Marks

The Independent UK

High Scool Football: When do the top 5 QBs of 2023 class play their first game?

A new season of High School Football has finally arrived

USA Today Sports Media Group

Unveiling the Class of 2023 SI99 Prospect Rankings

Sports Illustrated reveals preseason SI99 ranking of the nation’s top high school football prospects.

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Nichelle Nichols: Star Trek star who broke sci-fi’s racial barrier

As communications chief Uhura, Nichelle Nichols became a key part of a show that became a cultural touchstone

The Independent UK

Commentary: Lt. Uhura of ‘Star Trek’ took Black actresses where none had gone before

Lt. Uhura’s presence on the deck of the starship Enterprise seemed routine for the 23rd century. But the casting of Nichelle Nichols, the Black actress who played Uhura on “Star Trek” in the late 1960s, was extraordinary. Nichols, who later appeared in six “Star Trek” movies, died Saturday at age…

Los Angeles Times

Nichelle Nichols will forever have her place in history after Star Trek icon's death

Nichelle Nichols died at the weekend aged 89 but will be forever cemented in history thanks to her 1968 episode of Star Trek

Daily Mirror

‘Star Trek’ underutilized Nichelle Nichols. She was its heart and soul anyway

The original “Star Trek” may have been canceled in 1969, but it is still with us. That three seasons of a television series could in those days produce 79 episodes led to a healthy life in syndication, which brought the voyagers of the starship Enterprise new generations of viewers and…

Los Angeles Times

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Nichelle Nichols obituary

Actor who blazed a trail for black women on American TV in the 1960s in the role of Lt Uhura in Star Trek

The Guardian - UK

Actress Nichelle Nichols, ‘Star Trek’s’ Trail-Blazing Uhura, Dies at 89

Nichelle Nichols, whose portrayal of starship communications officer Lieutenant Uhura in the 1960s sci-fi TV series "Star Trek" and subsequent movies broke color barriers and helped redefine roles for Black actors, has died at age 89, her family said. Nichols, whose fans included Martin Luther King Jr. and a young…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Obama shares tribute to Bill Russell: "Today we lost a giant"

The 11-time NBA champion died on Sunday at the age of 88.

Axios

Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 89

Nichelle Nichols, who played the communications officer on the Starship Enterprise on “Star Trek” and famously participated in what was thought to be the first interracial kiss on television, has died.

Los Angeles Times

Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, passes away at 88

The NBA great Bill Russell has died at age 88

The Hindu

The Political Strategy of "Making the Other Side Better"

Economist Tyler Cowen argues this approach is too often neglected. But is more common than he suggests.

Reason

‘I said, Don, it’s time for you to reveal’: 50 years later, the truth behind American Pie

In an expansive new documentary, Don McLean talks about the much-discussed meaning of his enduring hit song

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The Conversation

Climate activism has so far been fairly peaceful: here’s why that might change

Climate change is perhaps the most serious threat to life on this planet. According to a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), climate change has already caused heatwave, drought and flood deaths across the world; contributed to the spread of potentially fatal diseases including cholera; and…

ABC News

From Simone Biles to Steve Jobs, meet all the Americans being awarded a Presidential Medal Of Freedom this week

Seventeen people will be awarded America's "highest civilian honour" this week. Here's who, and why they were chosen to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The Independent UK

The long, ongoing debate over ‘All men are created equal’

“All men are created equal.”

The Guardian - UK

Sam Gilliam obituary

Abstract artist whose ‘draped’ canvases hover between painting and sculpture

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Salon

D.C. march calls out "politics of greed"

Revived crusade founded by Dr. King focuses on new rise of union organizing at Amazon, Starbucks and elsewhere

Tribune News Service

Maureen Downey: Ibram X. Kendi: We are in a pitched battle to create anti-racist society

ATLANTA — Historian and writer Ibram X. Kendi learned as an adult what he hopes his young daughter and all children of color to learn from birth: They are not the racial problem. No racial group has more because they are more. No racial group has less because they are…

The Independent UK

Civil rights advocate Xernona Clayton is still 'fearless'

A key aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. says she’s deeply saddened by the hate crimes that are terrorizing people across America

The Guardian - US

Move over, Florida: Georgia the new battleground as Trump goes all in

Georgia has obsessed the former president since losing it to Joe Biden – will his mega-Maga candidates come out on top?

Evening Standard

Pistol, Midas Man, Elvis, Going Electric: how the classic rock canon is being rebooted

With Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and Danny Boyle’s new Sex Pistols show on Disney+, old rockers are being reclaimed for a new generation

The Guardian - UK

Dance legend Alonzo King: ‘People think of love as a sentiment but it’s a force’

The revered American choreographer looks back at his political family life and the inspiration of his mother’s movement ahead of a rare UK production with Rambert

Salon

Black lives and Black death

Marc Lamont Hill on how George Floyd's martyrdom changed America, and why cops and prisons can't deliver justice

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