Mar 11 Watch 3:26 Kara Jackson’s Brief But Spectacular take on honoring her lineage By Melissa Williams Kara Jackson is known for being the 2019-2020 National Youth Poet Laureate from Oak Park, Illinois. But her art is not limited to one medium or one place. She writes poems but also essays and music that explore her family… Continue watching
Mar 11 Author Zadie Smith to receive PEN America literary service award By Hillel Italie, Associated Press The PEN literary award is given to "an important writer whose work has drawn a wide audience and who helps us understand the human condition in original and powerful ways."… Continue reading
Mar 11 Actor Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying about staged hate attack By Don Babwin, Kathleen Foody, Associated Press Cook County Judge James Linn sentenced Smollett to 30 months of felony probation, with five months served in the county jail. Continue reading
Mar 10 Emilio Delgado, Luis on ‘Sesame Street’ for 45 years, dies By Andrew Dalton, Associated Press Emilio Delgado, the actor and singer who for 45 years was a warm and familiar presence in children's lives and a rare Latino face on American television as fix-it shop owner Luis on “Sesame Street,” died Thursday. Continue reading
Mar 10 Prosecutor seeks incarceration, restitution for Jussie Smollett By Don Babwin, Kathleen Foody, Associated Press A special prosecutor is seeking incarceration for Jussie Smollett for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that Smollett staged himself. Continue reading
Mar 10 MLB players approve contract, salvaging 162-game season By Ronald Blum, Associated Press Players have voted to accept Major League Baseball's latest offer for a new labor deal, paving the way to end a 99-day lockout and salvage a 162-game regular season that will begin April 7. Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch 6:40 Nationwide effort to ban books challenges freedom of speech By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet Advocates are sounding the alarm about a set of measures that they say target teaching and writing related to LGBTQ issues, race and freedom of speech. Around the country, efforts to ban specific books or even whole categories of books… Continue watching
Mar 10 Jussie Smollett faces sentencing for staged attack conviction By Don Babwin, Associated Press Actor Jussie Smollett is scheduled to return to court in Chicago to learn if a judge will order him locked up for his conviction of lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that he orchestrated or allow him… Continue reading
Mar 09 Sheltering from bombs, Ukraine’s ‘cellar violinist’ plays to lift spirits By Paolo Santalucia, Associated Press Vera Lytovchenko has become an internet icon of resilience as images of the accomplished violinist playing in a basement bomb shelter in the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have inspired an international audience via social media. Continue reading
Mar 09 Novelist Cormac McCarthy to publish two fiction books this fall By News Desk Cormac McCarthy has two novels coming out this fall, his first fiction releases since the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Road" in 2006. Continue reading