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John Amos poses for a portrait on May 11, 2016, in New York. Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 84. Amy Sussman/Invision/AP hide caption

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Ta-Nehisi Coates teaches at Howard University, where he's the Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department. Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images hide caption

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Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in ‘The Message’

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EX-NFL QB Colin Kaepernick and broadcast personality Nessa Diab author kid's book

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There are 22 MacArthur fellows this year. They include (clockwise from left) filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, disability justice activist Alice Wong, scholar and writer Ruha Benjamin, poet and educator Juan Felipe Herrera, artist and performer Justin Vivian Bond, and poet Jericho Brown. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Peabody Awards, Eddie Hernandez Photography, Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Unfinished Live, Beck Harlan/NPR, Jason Mendez/Getty Images, Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images hide caption

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"I love cooking for people I love," Ina Garten says. "And the cooking is just the medium; the thing that I care about is the connection." Austin Hargrave/Penguin Random House hide caption

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Marisa Abela as Yasmin Kara-Hanani in Industry. Nick Strasburg/HBO Max hide caption

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Kris Kristofferson, photographed in 2002 in Los Angeles. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption

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Kris Kristofferson, musical rebel and movie star, dies at age 88

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SUNDAY PUZZLE 092924

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In Fight Night, audiences are given a device which lets them vote multiple times. Michiel Devijver/Ontroerend Goed hide caption

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'FIGHT NIGHT' BRINGS ELECTION DRAMA TO THEATERS

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Dionne Warwick performs at the New York Stock Exchanges 96th Annual Christmas Tree Lighting at New York Stock Exchange on December 5, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Mendez/Getty Images) Jason Mendez/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption

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Wait Wait Dionne Warwick

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Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton, and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton during the "A Hillary Christmas" sketch on December 19, 2015. Dana Edelson/NBC hide caption

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Director Francis Ford Coppola at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024. Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP hide caption

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Francis Ford Coppola discusses his new film, Megalopolis

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Dionne Warwick joins us in Kansas City to talk Twitter and Sidney Poitier

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Batman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Sept. 26, 2024. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actor Maggie Smith played everything from wistful ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey. She died Friday at age 89. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption

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Remembering Maggie Smith

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Dear Life Kit: I'm at my breaking point

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a statue of a farmer and his daughter depicted from Grant Wood's American Gothic painting on the fairgrounds of the Iowa State Fair on August 6, 2014 in Des Moines, Iowa Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption

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