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Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe celebrates the release of his new book Just Beyond the Light by sharing a list of 10 books he thinks everyone should read.

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With the dawn of Black History Month comes deep reflection, reverence and appreciation — regardless if your roots pay homage ...

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The victory was celebrated by Christian countries long after as a key counterblow to Ottoman expansion; but, as Marcus Bull ...

The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to ...

Eddie Murphy, who once rescued Saturday Night Live during a rough patch in the 1980s, rescued a sketch in the show’s 50th ...

Our favorite books by Black authors Growing up as a young Black girl in the South, I saw positive representations of Black ...