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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." Hill's TV debut, making him the first indigenous comedian in prime time, is one of the milestones that Kliph Nesteroff chronicles in "We Had a Little Real Estate Problem," an ill...

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

Loews Hotels says it won't 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” with the senator at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel in Orlando, Florida, from Feb. 12 to Feb. 15, acc...

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-based GE Capital. In “HOT SEAT: What I learned leading a Great American Company” co-authored ...

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 Johnson's novel "The Yellow Wife" evokes a vision of one woman's 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 enslaved woman tells Pheby after her father's wife slaps her, "that handprint gonna be on your face...