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10-18-2024 12:10 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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Film director Spike Lee (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Spike Lee had a memorable first trip to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Michael Jordan welcomed a couple newcomers to it. He had never been to the Hall before learning he was being honored for his passion to the New York Knicks.
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FILE -Sean 'Diddy' Combs participates in "The Four" panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 4, 2018. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
A new wave of lawsuits filed Monday accuses Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping men and women and molesting a 16-year-old boy. The accusers are part of what their lawyers say is a group of more than 100 alleged victims who are in the process of taking legal action against Combs in the wake of his sex trafficking arrest last month.
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The emergence of a young, white superstar from the heartland has caused many new WNBA fans to pick sides that fall along racial lines. [Christine] Brennan’s critics claim she was pushing a line of questioning that has dogged Black athletes for decades: that they are aggressive and undisciplined.
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Tuesday its 2024 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant.” The 22 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend however they want. They were selected from nominations in a yearslong process that solicits input from their communities and peers. Fellows do not apply and are never officially informed that they’ve been nominated unless they are selected for the award
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Angela Bassett earned her first-ever Emmy Award at the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys this past week. Bassett, who’s had an illustrious four-decade career in the industry, earned her first Emmy for her work on National Geographic’s Queens, a seven-part series that chronicles the stories of animal matriarchies across the globe.
READ MOREGrammy winner Kendrick Lamar headline the the NFL’s Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans on Feb. 9. The rap megastar, who has won 17 Grammys, said he’s looking forward to bringing hip-hop to the NFL’s championship game, where he performed as a guest artist with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg in 2022. Roc Nation founder Jay-Z called Lamar a “once-in-a-generation” artist and performer
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Yennifer Castillo is a FAMU alumna and aerospace graduate student who has become known across social media for her creative classroom decor. A fifth-year teacher, Castillo said it was always her dream to become an educator, PEOPLE reports.
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Amanda Gorman sat down with Oprah Winfrey virtually in 2021 about her history-making inauguration appearance and wrote a poem for the television icon’s 70th birthday. However, the two had never met in person until last week at the Democratic National Convention.
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Lisa Leslie (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Kevin Durant made Olympic history last week during Team USA’s game against Brazil in the 2024 Paris Olympics quarterfinals, Sports Illustrated reports. Durant scored 11 points in Team USA’s 122-87 victory over Brazil for a career total of 494 points, becoming the all-time U.S. leading scorer in Olympic games for men’s or women’s basketball.
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The United States had its first Black president and its first female president over a half-century ago. They were fictional, they were on screen, their names were Douglass Dilman and Leslie McCloud, and in the decades that followed there have been many others. Yet none quite lines up with Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2024 election who is a biracial woman.
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