Motown Girl

Motown Girl

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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

thedailybeast.comNew MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced OutJonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.

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Carole King
@carolekingofficial.bsky.social

Aretha Franklin famously made Goffin-King’s “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” one of her signature songs, but she also recorded their composition “Oh No Not My Baby” on her 1970 album ‘Spirit In The Dark.’ #arethafranklin #goffinking #blackhistorymonth2025

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Ellen L. Weintraub
@ellenlweintraub.bsky.social

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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David Frum
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As UK's new Labour government negotiates the surrender of Parthenon marbles to Greece, here are unpaywalled links to my two articles on the real-world consequences of repatriating the Benin artworks to Nigeria, one from 2022 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

theatlantic.comWho Benefits When Western Museums Return Looted Art?The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.

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The Guardian
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‘I just had to rejoice’: the brilliance and tragedy of ‘fifth Beatle’ Billy Preston

theguardian.com‘I just had to rejoice’: the brilliance and tragedy of ‘fifth Beatle’ Billy PrestonA magnetically vibrant keyboard prodigy who played on Let It Be and worked with George Harrison, Preston later lived through years of addiction. A new film aims to find ‘the dark and the light’ in his story In the 1960s and 70s, Billy Preston was the…

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David Frum
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As I think of these men who ought to feel so grateful - instead raging and raving at those who have so much less reason for gratitude - I marvel at our human ability to convert happiness to misery. Open the fucking bottle, drink it now, and seize the joy while you can. END

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