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CLOSEAutoplayShow ThumbnailsShow CaptionsLast SlideNext SlideFormer U.S. President Barack Obama "stopped by" Nashville literary hub Parnassus Books early Friday as part of a virtual tour celebrating Independent Bookstore Day. Obama, who released best-selling presidential memoir "A Promised Land" last November, visited a half-dozen stores virtually in YouTube videos published Friday morning by Crown Publishing. Additional stops included The Lit.Bar in Bronx, New York, Square...

As “Jeopardy!” remains without a permanent host, a starry contender is coming forward with claims she was turned away for the coveted gig. Appearing on the “Tamron Hall Show” Monday, CNN legal analyst and author Laura Coates said she expressed interest in hosting “Jeopardy!” after longtime host Alex Trebek’s death in 2020, only to be rebuffed by the show’s...

“In the recent days, we’ve had a lot of talk of who is going where, and how I’ve decided to come to Pittsburgh to talk a little bit about what’s going right now,” Biden began in his remarks at a Carnegie Mellon University facility outside of Pittsburgh. “In the early days of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, and I quote, ‘the news...

Photo: CBCFThe Center for Policy Analysis and Research (CPAR) at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) today released the second issue of a multidisciplinary journal focusing exclusively on public policy issues related to Black politics in the United States. Entitled “Africa – America 2021: Re-envisioning Liberation for the Global Black Diaspora,” this edition of the biennial publication presents...