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Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles, a playlist by VanderbiltUP on Spotify
A selection of songs from the book "Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles" by David Cantwell & Bill Friskics-Warren • Published by Vanderbilt University Press
Joe Biden Is Problematic
No amount of growth or good intentions will change this fact.
This 88-Year-Old Grandmother Was an International Jewel Thief
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Graduate workers stand up against unfair conditions
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Discounted movie subscription service MoviePass shuts down
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A meeting with Jeffrey Epstein led to a gift — and, now, regrets - The Boston Globe
MIT Media Lab researcher Neri Oxman’s 2015 meeting with Epstein offers a window into how the lab was at once concerned about the optics of taking Epstein’s money and also tempted by his potential to donate and encourage others to give to the...
I Can’t Stop Thinking About Whatever Is Going On With Jeremy Renner
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Employers scramble after payroll company allegedly diverts $35 million from employees
MyPayrollHR is under investigation after abruptly shutting down, leaving more than 250,000 employees across the country without paychecks
University of Pittsburgh tells student groups not to use Pitt in their names
University says trademark covers the change.
A Black kingdom in postbellum Appalachia
The Kingdom of the Happy Land represents just one of many Black placemaking efforts in Appalachia. We must not forget it.
No extra fans, ice machines or AC units purchased for Virginia prison
As the temperatures spiked earlier this week, 8News continued to hear from inmates, relatives and corrections officers about unbearable heat in Virginia prisons. 8News has now uncovered new informa…
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After puppets and poetry, theater and film, artist Junauda Petrus is releasing her first young adult novel about two queer, black teenagers.
‘For Colored Girls’ Returns, as a Celebration and as a Weapon
Ntozake Shange’s play, with its unflinching depiction of black women’s experience, is coming back to the Public Theater more than 40 years after opening there.
Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy
Business schools fetishize entrepreneurial innovation, but their most prominent heroes succeeded because they manipulated corporate law, not because of personal brilliance.
Is the Story of Clarence Thomas an American Tragedy?
In a new book, Corey Robin attempts to explain the life and complicated views of a Supreme Court justice whose decisions have profoundly shaped our world.
Grassroots Blossom Across America, Reshaping Country’s Political Geography
As the 2018 midterm campaigns hit their stride last summer, there was finally some mainstream recognition that post-2016 grassroots groups — sometimes discussed as “Resistance” groups — had become an electoral force to be reckoned with. Reporters...