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Seats. really feel guilty. folks, look, its great to be with mayor baldwin of raleigh and, mayor shule of durham and joined by a proud native son of north carolina, the administrator of the epa in washington, d.c. michael reagan. where are you, michael? im always worried -- [ cheers and applause ] im always worried when i come back to north carolina and michael is with me that the governor is going to take him back, but i need him. look, folks, hes doing one heck of a job at epa. if you want to ...

Get the latest news on the Greenwood Film Festival, deadCenter Film Festival, Kevin Smiths Moobys coming to OKC, and Friends! The Musical Parody.

NPR host Scott Simon speaks to Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa about his new collection of poems.

A road trip is part of the DNA of every Californian, and this is a time we really need...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”  – James Baldwin During Pride month, JAMS celebrates the contributions of LGBTQIA+ persons. This June, we should take time to remember and reflect upon the pioneering work of James Baldwin. James Baldwin was a gay Black American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and social critic during the middle of the last century. He is probably ...

Ford's Theatre today announced the launch of The Lincoln Legacy Commissions—a new play development initiative for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) playwrights that explores racial history and social justice in the United States and gives voice to lesser-known historical figures and their contributions to American life. Playwrights Pearl Cleage, Rickerby Hinds, Nambi E. Kelley, Dominic Taylor and Charlayne Woodard comprise the inaugural writers of The Lincoln Legacy Commissions...

Links This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Nearly 80 years ago, Richard Wright became one of the most famous Black writers in the United States with the publication of “Native Son.” The novel’s searing critique of systemic racism made it a best-seller and inspired a generation of Black writers. In 1941, Wright wrote a new novel titled “The Man Who Lived Underground,” but publishers refused to release it, in part because the book was filled with graphic descr...

I greatly appreciated Ella Adams’ story in the Recorder covering the William Apess Day event held in Colrain last Friday. It was gratifying to see such thoughtful reporting on this event, and I would like to extend gratitude, as well, to all the...

"Its actually accomplishing what we always started out wanting to do, that this would not just be what some would refer to as a one-and-done, or a Kumbaya moment where OK, we sang, we held hands, now everybody go back home. This is a commemorative year ... even into the fall with Tulsa Ballet doing a full production and bringing African American artists and dancers from New York and an African American choreographer for a full production about the history of Greenwood," said Phil Armstrong...

Here are the best books of 2021 so far, from Torrey Peters' 'Detransition, Baby' to Patrick Radden Keefe's 'Empire of Pain.'