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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Anthony Ramos in a scene from "In the Heights." (Macall Polay/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)
10 things to be excited about at the movies this summer

By Jake Coyle And Lindsey Bahr May. 19, 2021 09:04 AM EDT

This photo provided by Perseus Books shows the book cover of “Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places and Events That Made the Movement” From the site where enslaved Africans entered America via the port at Charleston, South Carolina to key cities in Alabama's civil rights movement to Jackson, Mississippi, where Medgar Evers was killed, "Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places and Events That Made the Movement" gives readers an in-depth look at past events and shows how eerily similar those events mirror the present. (via AP)
The US Civil Rights Trail from SC to Mississippi and more

By Chevel Johnson Mar. 21, 2021 08:23 AM EDT

A health worker at San Jeronimo nursing home, wearing mask protection, holds hands with two elderly women while while taking part during International Women's Day in Estella, around 38 kms (23 miles) from Pamplona northern Spain, Monday, March 8, 2021. Many small-sized events are taking place across Spain creatively organized to prevent gatherings that could trigger a new spike of coronavirus contagion. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Defying pandemic, feminists in Spain decry far-right attacks

By Aritz Parra And Bernat Armangue Mar. 08, 2021 07:23 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press Feb. 10, 2021 08:15 AM EST
Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers: ___ Feb. 9 The Valdosta Daily Times on arming school...

FILE - Ken Burns, director of the PBS documentary series "Country Music," speaks in a panel discussion during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 29, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Burns says he has eight new projects in the works, including deep-dive looks at Benjamin Franklin, Muhammad Ali, Leonard da Vinci and Ernest Hemingway. PBS announced a new online home for all the work of Burns and other documentarians, a subscription streaming service that will start next month. Besides Burns' library, the service will also have work from "NOVA" and "Frontline. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Burns outlines 8 projects; PBS launches documentary service

By David Bauder Jul. 28, 2020 04:19 PM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2018, file photo, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami signs his autograph on his novel "Killing Commendatore" during a press conference at Waseda University in Tokyo. The acclaimed Japanese novelist Murakami, hosting a special radio show from home, painted a brighter side of the world with his favorite music, and said Friday, May 22, 2020, the fight against the coronavirus is a challenge to human wisdom in figuring out ways to help and care each other. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Author Murakami DJs 'Stay Home' radio show to lift spirits

By Mari Yamaguchi May. 23, 2020 01:24 AM EDT