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Head football coach Neal Brown is set to return for a fifth season at West Virginia, according to a statement from school officials on Wednesday.

Community Build, Inc. celebrated three decades of providing “a culture of care” by paying tribute to community heroes and sheroes at their 30th Anniversary Celebration.

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Leslie Odom explains why he initially passed on playing Sam Cooke in ‘One Night in Miami’ [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-ONE-NIGHT-MIAMI-ODOM:LA] Leslie Odom Jr. passed on playing Sam Cooke in “One Night in Miami” the first time Regina King offered him the role. No disrespect, he thought, but a movie depicting an imagined conversation among four iconic Black men — Cooke, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown — felt like it could go sideways in a second. Plus, there wasn’t much time to prepare. There’d be no rehearsal. Too nerve-racking. And you wan...

Leslie Odom Jr. passed on playing Sam Cooke in “One Night in Miami” the first time Regina King offered him the role. No disrespect, he thought, but a movie depicting an imagined conversation among four iconic Black men — Cooke, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown — felt like it could go sideways in a second. Plus, there wasn’t much time to prepare. There’d be no rehearsal. Too nerve-racking. And you want me to sing “A Change Is Gonna Come” in the final scene of the movie? No thank you. But — and Odom says this never happens — the actor’s agent and manager asked him to...