Tonya Mosley
Stories
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Politics
Debate between Biden and Trump is expected to be a test of competence and character
New York Times political correspondent Shane Goldmacher says the debate will look different from the one four years ago, with no audience and mics that can be muted should things get unwieldy.
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Arts & Life
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Michelle Buteau decided: 'I better start living'
Buteau says covering the news of the 2001 terrorist attacks crystalized her desire to go into comedy. She stars in the film Babes and in the Netflix series Survival of the Thickest.
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Arts & Life
Ghanaian artist Blitz Bazawule breaks down doors
Bazawule is best known for directing the 2023 adaptation of The Color Purple: The Musical. He also co-directed Black Is King with Beyoncé. His new exhibit of paintings is about growing up in Ghana.
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Arts & Life
David Oyelowo on playing justice seekers, peacekeepers and men on a mission
Oyelowo plays a formerly enslaved man who went on to become one of the nation's first Black Deputy U.S. Marshals in the Paramount+ series Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Oyelowo also produced the series.
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Arts & Life
Reconstruction-era records reveal how formerly enslaved people were stripped of land
Journalist Alexia Fernández Campbell says some freed men and women were given titles to land following the Civil War -- but after President Lincoln's death, the land was taken back.
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Arts & Life
Actor Griffin Dunne revisits his Hollywood childhood in 'The Friday Afternoon Club'
In a new memoir, Dunne writes about growing up in a family of storytellers, his complicated relationship with fame and the trauma the family experienced after the 1982 murder of his sister, Dominique.
