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Combing Hair, Syracuse, N.Y., 1986, High Museum of Art, gift of Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams, 2017

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'An American Project': For Decades, Dawoud Bey Has Chronicled Black Life

11:13am February 02, 2021

by Karen Michel

Bey has spent more than 40 years documenting Black Americans, from Harlem to Louisiana. The first museum retrospective of his work is now touring the country.

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"I've always wanted to just be an actor ... that's all I've ever wanted to be, playing different roles," Hal Holbrook told NPR in 2008. He is shown above in his New York apartment in February 1973.

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Actor Hal Holbrook, Who Played Mark Twain Longer Than Twain Himself, Dies At 95

11:05am February 02, 2021

by Jesse Baker

Holbrook played the Southern humorist for more than six decades in his one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight. He's also known for playing Deep Throat in All the President's Men.

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It's The Public Radio Romance! Questions For Rachel Solomon, Author Of 'The Ex Talk'

10:00am February 02, 2021

by Petra Mayer

We here at NPR have a proprietary interest in the new novel from former KUOW producer Rachel Lynn Solomon: It's a sparky enemies-to-lovers romance set at a public radio station.

Writer Jackie Wang's debut poetry collection is called The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void.

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With Sunflowers As Her Guide, Poet Tunes In To Dream Life For Debut Collection

6:08am February 02, 2021

by Jeevika Verma

Poet Jackie Wang's collection is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning in to them.

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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, by Reuben Jonathan Miller

'Halfway Home' Makes Case That The Formerly Incarcerated Are Never Truly Free

5:00am February 02, 2021

by Ericka Taylor

Sociologist, criminologist, and former jail chaplain Reuben Jonathan Miller says "no other marginalized group ... experience[s] [the] profound level of legal exclusion" that those once imprisoned do.

After Saved by the Bell, Dustin Diamond made many appearances on reality TV shows, such as Celebrity Big Brother.

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'Saved By The Bell' Star Dustin Diamond Dead At 44

9:36pm February 01, 2021

by Andrew Limbong

Dustin Diamond played the awkward sidekick Screech in the hit sitcom. He died Monday of cancer, after having been diagnosed three weeks ago.

In 2018, actress Evan Rachel Wood testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee about being sexually assaulted.

Evan Rachel Wood Names Marilyn Manson As Abuser

4:24pm February 01, 2021

by Andrew Limbong

The Westworld actor alleged that Brian Warner, better known as industrial-rock musician Marilyn Manson, was her abuser, naming him for the first time in a statement posted to Instagram.

Ben Harper And Mom Ellen Reflect On A Lifetime Immersed In A Folk Music 'Wonderland'

1:30pm February 01, 2021

by Terry Gross

Ellen and Ben Harper both grew up in the Folk Music Center in Claremont Calif., which Ellen's parents founded in 1958. They join Fresh Air to discuss Ellen's new memoir, Always a Song.

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Singer Tony Bennett performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2007.

Tony Bennett Has Alzheimer's Disease

12:07pm February 01, 2021

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

In a profile of the iconic 94-year-old singer for AARP The Magazine, Bennett's wife says he was diagnosed in 2016. While the disease progressed, he recorded a new album of duets with Lady Gaga.

We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year, by Charles Wheelan

'We Came, We Saw, We Left' Takes Us On One Family's Gap Year Adventure

6:10pm January 31, 2021

by Carson Vaughan

Dartmouth's Charles Wheelan, author of Naked Economics, writes about his nine-month globetrot in 2016 with his wife and their teenagers — offering a refreshing escape during these isolating times.