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Motown Records, Founded on This Day in 1959, Broke Racial Barriers in Pop Music With Its Beloved Hits
On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey ...
She Published a Blockbuster Book. Was It a Blessing or a Curse?
In Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel, “Death of the Author,” a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art ...
Regional radio shows on Heart, Smooth and Capital to be scrapped as broadcasting set to move to London
Regional shows on some of the country's most popular radio stations are set to be scrapped. Heart, Smooth and Capital brands ...
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Born on January 12: Blixa Bargeld (Einsturzende Neubauten) is magnificently insatiable
Ask around you. Very few people know the stage name of this brilliant exentric born in Berlin in 1959. And even fewer know ...
Local Testimony: Witnessing a tragedy in motion
The stirring impact of the rollout is amplified by the inescapable fact that we are still bogged down in a terrifying morass ...