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Jayson Tatum makes history with his new job at alma mater Duke
Jayson Tatum will serve as the Chief Basketball Officer for Duke, his alma mater, during the college basketball season, the school announced on Tuesday. Tatum, who played at Duke in 2016-17, will...
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Ashley Allison: Meet the former Obama advisor acquiring ‘The Root’ to return it to Black ownership
Ashley Allison, a Democratic political strategist and CNN commentator, said last week that she is acquiring The Root from G/O Media, a digital media holding company controlled by a private equity firm....
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When Lionel Richie’s parents stopped him from marching with Martin Luther King Jr.
Growing up in the segregated South in the 1950s and 1960s, Lionel Richie longed to be part of the civil rights movement of the time, but his parents didn’t allow him to. While promoting his new memoir,...
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Meet the Zimbabwean farmer in UK honored with royal visit after being ‘first to grow white maize’
When David Mwanaka moved to the UK from Zimbabwe more than 20 years ago, he couldn’t find white maize, a staple crop he had eaten growing up. So he started growing it in addition to other traditional...
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Julian Brown: The young inventor who turns plastic into fuel
“Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes,” according to the website Our World in Data. That figure grew to over...
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Diddy sentenced to more than four years in prison
A federal judge sentenced Sean “Diddy” Combs to 50 months in prison on prostitution-related charges. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian also fined him $500,000 and ordered five years...
