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'Warrior Girl Unearthed' revisits the 'Firekeeper's Daughter' cast of characters

In this gripping follow-up to Angeline Boulley's much-lauded debut, we return to Sugar Island and meet the next generation of girls in the Firekeeper family.

May 10, 2023
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  • Caitlyn Paxson
The Hardwood Classics perform at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif.

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  • Sports

Meet the NBA dancers strutting into their Golden years

At halftime for the Golden State Warriors, a dance crew for performers age 55 and older hits the hardwood and steals the show.

May 10, 2023
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By:
  • Taylor Haney
Twenty-two timber cabins, built for enslaved people, are on the Evergreen Plantation in the West Bank of St. John the Baptist Parish, La.

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  • Architecture

Here's the latest list of the '11 Most Endangered Historic Places' in the U.S.

"It's very hard to narrow the list," says the Chief Preservation Officer of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The 2023 list includes a gas station, an artist studio and two Chinatowns.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Alyssa Wapanatâhk as Tiger Lily in Disney's live-action <em>Peter Pan & Wendy</em> on Disney+.

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  • Arts & Life

Peter Pan still hasn't grown up, but Tiger Lily has changed

Tiger Lily's character is based on racist stereotypes, and has inspired many offensive depictions over the years. Now, Cree actor Alyssa Wapanatâhk takes on the role in the Disney+ Peter Pan & Wendy.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
GPB  NPR

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  • TV Reviews

Pete Davidson is an endearing work in progress in 'Bupkis'

The former SNL cast member stars as a somewhat autobiographical, sometimes exaggerated version of himself in this entertaining new series, co-starring Edie Falco and Joe Pesci.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • David Bianculli
Tom Hanks used some of the pandemic slowdown to write a novel titled <em>The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece.</em>

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  • Arts & Life

Tom Hanks has starred in dozens of movies. Now he's written a novel too

For Tom Hanks, movies have always been transformative. Now, after acting in dozens of them, he's written a novel based on his experiences on movie sets. He talked to NPR's A Martinez.

May 09, 2023
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  • Ziad Buchh
Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe, center, is congratulated Monday by staff sports columnist Rick Cleveland, right, after winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, as her mother, Bethel Wolfe, left, observes, at a celebration in Jackson, Miss. Wolfe was honored for her reporting on a $77 million welfare scandal, the largest embezzlement of federal funds in Mississippi's history.

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  • Arts & Life

Here are the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes

The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.

May 09, 2023
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  • Neda Ulaby and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Beatrice and Harvey Dong say farewell to their beloved Eastwind Books shop.

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  • Arts & Life

A chapter ends for this historic Asian American bookstore, but its story continues

For decades, Eastwind Books was an anchor for the Bay Area's Asian American community. Now, the husband and wife duo behind it have decided to close the shop.

May 09, 2023
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  • Christopher Intagliata,
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • and 1 more
Grace Bumbry, in a 1963 portrait.

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  • Obituaries

Trailblazing opera star Grace Bumbry dies at age 86

The celebrated singer, who led an illustrious, jet-setting career, broke the color barrier as the first Black artist to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival.

May 09, 2023
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  • Brandon Gates
Best friends Elora and Kayla practice their Bollywood routine for a community Diwali event in Virginia. The holiday celebrates light in the darkness, renewal and rebirth, and the triumph of good over evil.

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  • Arts & Life

Through her grief, an Indian American photographer rediscovers her heritage

Documentary photographer Maansi Srivastava shares a story of growing up in the United States and reclaiming her roots in her project Roots Hanging from the Banyan Tree.

May 09, 2023
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  • Maansi Srivastava

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  • Book Reviews

'Wild Dances' puts consequences of a long-ago, faraway conflict at center

By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Eurovision expert William Lee Adams affirms an idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Thúy Đinh
Bryan Robinson, author of <em>Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World. </em>

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  • Author Interviews

Advice from a recovering workaholic: break free

How to achieve that hard-to-hit goal of work/life balance? NPR's A Martinez asks Bryan Robinson, author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World.

May 08, 2023
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By:
  • Reena Advani
The crowd- some of whom had been waiting for four hours - was so excited they sometimes drowned out the performers.

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  • Arts & Life

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda, Josh Groban, cast of 'Hamilton' celebrate 'Sweeney Todd'

The casts of both shows joined together to sing a parody song penned by Miranda.

May 08, 2023
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  • Jennifer Vanasco

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  • Book Reviews

'Red Memory' aims to profile people shaped by China's Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan, once China correspondent for the Guardian, makes the strongest English-language effort yet to reconstruct what it was like to live through, and then with, this part of Chinese history.

May 08, 2023
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  • Emily Feng
GPB  NPR

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  • Author Interviews

'The Last Honest Man' profiles the senator who exposed the CIA's crimes and cover-ups

Journalist James Risen tells the story of Sen. Frank Church, who exposed the dirty laundry of the CIA and the FBI nearly 50 years ago, and inspired congressional oversight of intelligence agencies.

May 08, 2023
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  • Dave Davies
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