Harvard professor Tiya Miles wins Cundill History Prize for ‘All That She Carried’
MONTREAL – Harvard professor Tiya Miles’s book about the history of an enslaved mother and her daughter has won this year’s US$75,000 Cundill History Prize. Miles...
Britney Spears’ massive pop songs to land on Broadway, again
NEW YORK (AP) — A stage musical about woke princesses that uses hit songs by Britney Spears will land on Broadway this summer. “Once Upon a...
Revisiting ‘da Kink’: Playwright Trey Anthony on theatre, hair and Black self-love
Trey Anthony knows a thing or two about hair. So much so that she wrote a play about it. Set in a West Indian hair salon...
Ross Petty couldn’t leave 25 years of pantos behind without playing his ‘favourite evil person’
“There could be no alternative.” That’s Ross Petty’s response when asked why he’s come back to play Captain Hook in “Peter’s Final Flight,” the 25th and...
Mamie King-Chalmers, woman in civil rights photo, dies at 81
DETROIT (AP) — Mamie King-Chalmers, who as a young Black woman appeared in an iconic photo about civil rights struggles in Alabama, has died at the...
Diamondbacks and RHP Miguel Castro agree to 1-year deal
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks signed hard-throwing reliever Miguel Castro to a one-year contract Friday. Castro, who turns 28 this month, has already spent eight...
‘End this ongoing genocide:’ Indigenous advocates call for change after women killed
WINNIPEG – The arrest of a man accused of killing four women, all believed to be Indigenous, shows vulnerable women and girls are subject to dangerous...
Bills looking to extend success against AFC East opponents
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills finally have a win over a divisional opponent — and it couldn’t come at a better time. Buffalo’s...
Homicide probes to cost $10M this year: chief
The cost of investigating the record number of homicides in Winnipeg this year, including four blamed on an accused serial killer who preyed on vulnerable women,...
Almost anything could happen in round of 16
Opinion You can exhale now. And take a moment if need be. Because if this World Cup’s round of 16 is anywhere near as its dramatic...