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Carlos Villarías and Lupita Tovar starred in the 1931 Spanish language version of <em>Dracula</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

Spanish 'Dracula' finds new blood, more than 90 years after its release

In 1931, an entire new cast and crew reshot Dracula into Spanish on the Universal Studios lot.

September 19, 2022
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  • Mandalit del Barco
John Leguizamo (left), Rita Moreno, Dolores del Rio, Katy Jurado, Edward James Olmos and Ariana DeBose (top) are Hollywood legends.

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  • Arts & Life

Latino legends helped pave the way in Hollywood, but the road is still rocky

Latinos have been part of Hollywood since the silent film era but are still underrepresented in front of and behind the camera.

September 16, 2022
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  • Mandalit del Barco
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock's campaign bus tour in Albany, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022.

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  • National

Georgia's rural Black voters helped propel Democrats before. Will they do it again?

One group that could help 2022 statewide Democratic candidates is Georgia's rural Black voters. They helped Stacey Abrams get close in 2018 and later pushed two Democratic U.S. senators to victory.

September 12, 2022
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  • Sam Gringlas
Sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy delivered an address at Rice University to inspire Americans to support NASA's mission to the moon. In what became known as his "We Choose the Moon" speech, Kennedy promised to put an American astronaut on the moon before the end of the 1960s.

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  • Space

How space exploration has changed, 60 years since JFK's 'We Choose the Moon' speech

On the anniversary of President Kennedy's speech on the race to the moon, we look at the dramatic advances in U.S. space science, from commercial flights and missions to Mars to the Webb telescope.

September 12, 2022
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  • Dustin Jones
This March 26, 1972 file photo shows the Rev. Jesse Jackson speaking to reporters at the Operation PUSH Soul Picnic in New York as Tom Todd, vice president of PUSH, from second left, Aretha Franklin and Louis Stokes.

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  • History

The FBI monitored Aretha Franklin's role in the civil rights movement for years

The agency surveilled Franklin and those around her to gauge how deeply she was involved in organizations tied to Communism, the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement.

September 12, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
Queen Elizabeth greets leader of the Conservative party Liz Truss at Balmoral Castle on Tuesday. The queen is under medical observation after her doctors became concerned about her health.

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  • Europe

Royal family members gather by Queen Elizabeth's side as health concerns swirl

The queen, under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, had been in poor health in recent months. Her children were by her side when she passed away Thursday.

September 08, 2022
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  • Dustin Jones
The Metropolitan Atlanta Community Band is gearing up for its first concert in more than two years.

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  • Arts & Life

Community bands are back after being battered by the pandemic

There are more than a thousand community bands in big cities and small towns throughout the country.

September 08, 2022
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  • Jon Kalish
U.S. deputy marshals escort six-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in November 1960.

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  • Race

Ruby was the first Black child to desegregate her school. This is what she learned

In 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Now she shares the lessons she learned with future generations.

September 07, 2022
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  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Elena Burnett,
  • and 2 more
Former President Donald Trump tosses hats into the crowd before addressing attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Fla.

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  • Politics

Trump can only serve 4 more years. The reason why has a long and sordid history

Trump can't serve more than twice because of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment's history is rooted in money, race and politics. Here's a look at how it came about.

September 07, 2022
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  • Domenico Montanaro
In <em>Vesper,</em> Raffiella Chapman plays a 13-year-old girl living in a future where biological experiments have wiped out all the earth's edible plants.

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  • Movies

You'll want these five films on your list for fall

After a two-year dry spell, Hollywood's summer blockbusters finally busted some blocks this year. Now, the question is how to keep that momentum going.

September 06, 2022
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  • Bob Mondello
Woman hold a banner for equal pay during a 2018 march in Munich, Germany.

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  • Obituaries

Remembering Marilyn Loden, who gave a name to the glass ceiling

When Loden first uttered the phrase "the glass ceiling" in the 1970s, she hoped the invisible barrier for women that it described would soon become a thing of the past. She died last month at age 76.

September 05, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
A member of Black September appears on the balcony of the apartment where gunmen held members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage on Sept. 5, 1972. It was the first time a terrorist attack had been broadcast live to a global audience.

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  • History

50 years ago, the Munich Olympics massacre changed how we think about terrorism

Gunmen held members of the Israeli team hostage, eventually killing them, during the 1972 Munich Olympics. The attack was the first time a global audience had witnessed terrorism as it happened.

September 04, 2022
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  • James Doubek
President Joe Biden argued that Donald Trump's supporters pose a threat to U.S. democracy during an address billed as the "battle for the soul of the nation" at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on Thursday.

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  • History

Historians advise the president. The problem? The scholars were all white.

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.

September 04, 2022
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  • Sandhya Dirks
Historic Home in Macon

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  • History

The Waterworks: A weird and wonderful house in Macon

The structure was built in the mid-19th century as the waterworks for the city of Macon. In a news article from 1874, the building was mentioned as “an old moss-covered building." By the early 20th century, it was abandoned until it became an antique shop in 1934 where people would buy wedding presents and birthday gifts. 

September 02, 2022
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  • Evey Wilson Wetherbee
Student with mask sits at desk

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Back-to-school with the divisive concepts bill; How are our teachers doing?

Thursday on Political Rewind: A special panel unpacks S.B. 377, which bans the teaching of "divisive concepts". The bill was created to curb what conservatives called "Critical Race Theory" in classrooms. Opponents say it harms their ability to teach Georgia's painful racial history.

September 01, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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