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PELOTON AND TUFF GONG CELEBRATE BOB MARLEY WITH PELOTON BOB MARLEY ARTIST SERIES – FEBRUARY 3 ZIGGY MARLEY JOINS MALCOLM GLADWELL IN CONVERSATION DISCUSSING HIS BOOK, BOB MARLEY: PORTRAIT OF THE LEGEND FOR LA LIVE TALK – FEBRUARY 6 STEPHEN MARLEY PAYS SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO HIS FATHER WITH INTIMATE BOB MARLEY LIVESTREAM 29 JANUARY 2021 (TORONTO, ON - After a hugely successful year, Bob Marley 75 continues into 2021 with several birthday celebrations leading up to Marley's 76th Birthday on February 6, including a global virtual birthday celebration hosted by Cedella Marley, Songs of Freedom: ...

Deeper Motivations: Jazmine Sullivan Interviewed R&B queen on her stellar return, and learning to be comfortable in your own skin... A collective burst of elation echoed many dwellings of the internet this past August, when Jazmine Sullivan arose from her elusive cocoon to unearth the solemn and understated ballad ‘Lost One’. Further salivating already wet appetites, the arrival of ‘Pick Up Your Feelings’ would follow accordingly. The fierce and cutting number channelling Jazmine’s inner Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples, urgently exemplified wh...

November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020 Actor, director, and playwright Chadwick Boseman skyrocketed into the spotlight with his role as Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film 42. He went on to star as James Brown ( Get On Up, 2014) and Thurgood Marshall ( Marshall, 2017), and then became an icon in his own right with his 2018 portrayal of T’Challa in Black Panther—the first Black Marvel superhero. Boseman credited his work ethic to his Anderson, South Carolina, upbringing, and told G&G in a 2017 interview, “the Southern part of me is always going to come out. It doesn’t matter where you l...

March 22, 2021 A Siloam man was killed Monday morning when he was struck by a tractor-trailer on U.S. 52 South, near the Cook School Road exit. Marvin H. Bledsoe Sr., of Siloam, 85, had for some reason stopped his car on the shoulder of the southbound lane of U.S. 52, then wondered into oncoming traffic when he was struck, according to North Carolina Highway Patrol First Sgt. J.M. Church. The sergeant said officials do not yet know why Bledsoe had exited his car. “It was nearby, and wasn’t broken down,” Church said. David Speight, interim Surry County Emergency Services director, said t...

Commentary: Solaces in artists' death the comfort they provided Jan. 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82.Dean Hanson /Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Betty Wright, 66, died in May. She was the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included "Clean Up Woman.”GABRIEL BOUYS /AFP /Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less We all have yearnings inside, bursts of love, empathy and compassion that make us huma...