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Gather 'round — we have some fall reading recommendations for you. Above, children listen to a story in Central Park on Oct. 23, 2017. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Tulsa, Oklahoma. Viola Fletcher. Ottowa Gurley. Ester Dean. Getty Images hide caption
The Tulsa SMACKDOWN: Rihanna's greatest hits vs. Black Wall Street vs. Route 66
Amy Sherald, As soft as she is..., 2023. Courtesy of Amy Sherald and Hauser & Wirth hide caption
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
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
Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in ‘The Message’
Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab pose for a portrait. Kaepernick Media hide caption
EX-NFL QB Colin Kaepernick and broadcast personality Nessa Diab author kid's book
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
Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in Nobody Wants This. Adam Rose/Netflix hide caption
"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
Marisa Abela as Yasmin Kara-Hanani in Industry. Nick Strasburg/HBO Max hide caption
Myha’la as Harper. Simon Ridgway/HBO hide caption
Kris Kristofferson, photographed in 2002 in Los Angeles. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption
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In Fight Night, audiences are given a device which lets them vote multiple times. Michiel Devijver/Ontroerend Goed hide caption
Terry Crews attends the America's Got Talent Season 19 red carpet in March. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
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
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
Director Francis Ford Coppola at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024. Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP hide caption
Batman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Sept. 26, 2024. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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
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