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Book World: Native American comedians get their due Donald Liebenson, The Washington Post Feb. 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Kliph Nesteroff - - - "I know a lot of you white people have never seen an Indian do stand-up comedy before," joked Charlie Hill on "The Richard Pryor Show" in 1977. "Like, for so long you probably thought that Indians never had a sense of humor. We never thought you were too funny either." Hills TV debut, making him the first indigenous comedian in prime time, is one...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Josh Hawley has found a new publisher after his book was dropped...

Loews Hotels says it wont host Hawley fundraiser Michael Levenson, New York Times Jan. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Loews Hotels said Saturday that it would not host a fundraiser with Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, the latest indication that many companies are distancing themselves from Republicans who voted to overturn the election results. Fighting for Missouri, a political action committee affiliated with Hawley, had planned to host a “fun-filled, family-friendly Orlando weekend event” ...

Former GE CEO Immelt promises unvarnished interrogation in new book Alexander Soule FacebookTwitterEmail Jeffrey Immelt in November 2008 while CEO of General Electric, in New York City. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)Mark Lennihan / AP Former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt is publishing a memoir of his 16 years leading General Electric, with the onetime New Canaan resident having moved the conglomerate’s headquarters in 2016 to Boston from Fairfield, while selling off large chunks of Norwalk...

Book World: An enslaved woman becomes her own savior Ellen Morton, The Washington Post Jan. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - Through the eyes of a character with uncommon access and compassion, Sadeqa Johnsons novel "The Yellow Wife" evokes a vision of one womans tenacious survival of antebellum cruelty and objectification. The daughter of an enslaved healer and seamstress and her White master, Pheby Delores Brown grows up in a kind of in-between state. "Problem with being high yella," an e...

Can Twitter legally bar Trump? The First Amendment says yes Adam Liptak, New York Times Jan. 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail This Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 image shows the suspended Twitter account of President Donald Trump. On Friday, the social media company permanently suspended Trump from its platform, citing "risk of further incitement of violence." (AP Photo/Tali Arbel)Tali Arbel / Associated Press WASHINGTON — When Simon & Schuster canceled its plans this week to publish Sen. Josh Hawley’s ...

OFALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Republican colleague rebuked him on the Senate floor. A...