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Ahead of the BET Awards, a look back at how the work helped hip-hop grow and thrive

“Rap City.”

The Independent UK

Eric Clapton announces exclusive show at Liverpool M&S Bank Arena

The guitar legend last played at the arena in 2009

Liverpool Echo

We came for Reb Beach and Steve Morse covering Crossroads. We stayed for the guitar faces

Beach ranked Morse alongside Jeff Beck, calling him “one of the great guitarists of our time,” after they performed this electrifying cover of Crossroads

Guitar World

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Meet The Curse of K.K. Hammond, the spooky resonator blues connoisseur who prefers modern guitars and gives them names like “Hell’s Belle” and “Swamp Bitch”

The Robert Johnson and Skip James enthusiast acknowledges there will be “some lovers of vintage Nationals out there who’ll be horrified”, but she thinks her heavily customized contemporary resonators “just sound better”

Guitar World

Angus Young on Eddie Van Halen, the differences between Bon and Brian, and his guilty secret

in 1992 Vic Garbarini spent three days on the road with AC/DC and got one of the most revealing interviews with Angus Young ever – now published online for the first time

Metal Hammer

Two arrests after Florida father found fatally shot next to his unharmed four-year-old child

The child’s mother, 25-year-old Rachel Moore, and her former stepfather Jason Layne Curtis, 53, have been arrested

The Independent UK

Why are there so few Black team owners in US professional sports?

A look at the fortified glass ceiling that casts a shadow over one of the most exclusive clubs in the world

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Mississippi is home of the blues and key to civil rights past. Locals tell the story

With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail. Civil rights leaders are noticing some are now hungry for more context about the music's origins.

WEKU

Mississippi GOP governor now backs longer Medicaid for moms

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is doing an abrupt about-face on an issue Democrats have been hammering him on this election year

The Independent UK

Newcastle private school teacher struck off for 'producing child sex images'

Robert Johnson taught at Dame Allan's School in Fenham between 2010 and 2020

Chronicle Live

Down to the Crossroads: A Northerner explores the birthplace of the blues

Jerry Holt gazed at the old cotton gin at historic Dockery Farms with a bit of wonder. The massive red, rusty Murray 90 machine looked hauntingly familiar. Suddenly, memories came flooding back on this sun-dappled afternoon along the Mississippi Blues Trail.

Tribune News Service

Mississippi House seeks to control Jackson sales tax revenue

Amid a struggling water system, the Mississippi House has voted to further restrict how the capital city of Jackson can spend money from a 1% local sales tax

The Independent UK

As tech companies make cuts, will other industries follow? Here’s what to know about jobs in 2023

Mary Hainds had been working in sales at a small construction technology startup for about six months before she was laid off in October. In the weeks that followed, she interviewed for other tech sales jobs in earnest and received job offers.

Chicago Tribune

How to go back to the financial basics in 2023

Keep it simple, stupid.

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Benzinga

What The Fed's Latest Interest Rate Hike Means For The Crypto World

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Tribune News Service

Housing market predictions for 2023

We’re rounding the corner on 2022 and quickly heading toward a new year. That makes this a perfect time to prognosticate real estate matters for 2023. With mortgage rates escalating higher, home sales — and, in some areas, home prices — hitting the brakes, and increased uncertainty felt throughout the…

The Texas Tribune

What to know before voting for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judges

Texans will vote on three seats for the state’s highest criminal court in November. Here’s what the court does, who is running for office and what issues candidates are running on.

The Independent UK

Director: Mississippi does not track welfare program results

Mississippi’s scandal-plagued welfare program turns away most applicants for cash assistance

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House of the rising Son

Son House is regarded as one of the greats of early blues, along with early recording stars like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. He made 78rpm records in the 1930s but a spell in penitentiary halted his career and by the 1940s he had abandoned recording. It wasn't until 1964…

Reason

FBI Misled Judge in Obtaining Warrant To Seize Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes

New court documents show that the FBI planned for months to seize and forfeit property found inside safe deposit boxes in an L.A. raid under the pretext of doing an inventory.

Chicago Sun-Times

Trio charged with murder nearly 2 years after man killed during attempted carjacking on West Side

Two men and a teenager killed 52-year-old Robert Johnson during a shootout in West Garfield Park in 2020, police said.

Axios

Tamales and the blues: Latino links to Black American music and cuisine

Bluesman Robert Johnson's 1930s homage to tamales points to neglected Latino connections to the South scholars are now uncovering.

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