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Actor Piper Laurie died early Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She appeared in TV series such as Matlock, Murder, She Wrote and Frasier and played George Clooney’s mother on ER.

Humor and great indie music combined to form an awesome concert when Mac DeMarco played the Fox. By Gabriel Kelly

It is not uncommon in Nigeria for one ethnic group to make another ethnic group the target of ethnic slurs in form of unfavorable, derisive or disparaging jokes, sayings, or riddles.   Lately, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka (WS) has been the target of ethnic slurs, disparaging jokes with denigrative epithets hurled at him by ObidientZombies and some Igbo interpreters of maladies. WS crime was characterization of Labor Party presidential candidate Datti Ahmed’s juvenile tantrums over the results ...

The civil rights leader's dynamic life was full of surprises

The civil rights leader's dynamic life was full of surprises

Calvin White will read from his latest poetry anthology, Facing the Sweating Horse

Calvin White debuts new book in An Evening to Touch the Mind and Spirit

THE SLIDE of print as a source of news continues. And the decision to cut out cartoons from more Op-Ed pages is poignant. For the audience of this spe

Also, Americares has named two directors of emergency response in the United States and worldwide, and the hedge-fund billionaire and philanthropist Julian Robertson has died.