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This cover image released by Carolrhoda Books shows "Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre" by Carole Boston Weatherford with art by Floyd Cooper. The book received Coretta Scott King awards for the year's best book by a Black author and illustrator. Cooper collaborated with Weatherford on the historical work about the 1921 slaughter of a Black community in Oklahoma by a mob of white people. (Lerner Publishing Group via AP)

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'Last Cuentista,' 'Unspeakable' win children's book awards
By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer
Mon,01/24/22-12:05PM , 382 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Donna Barba Higuera's “The Last Cuentista,” a post-apocalyptic tale of a young girl who must preserve the memory of Earth's history, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's best children's book.
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Singer Meat Loaf performs in support of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Meat Loaf, whose "Bat Out Of Hell" album is one of the all time bestsellers, has died, family said on Facebook, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out of Hell' rock superstar, dies at 74
By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer
Fri,01/21/22-2:41AM , 426 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Meat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” and “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” has died. He was 74.
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Honorees Alan, left, and Marilyn Bergman arrive at the ASCAP Film and Television music awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Oscar-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022 at age 93. She teamed with husband Alan Bergman on “The Way We Were,” “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” and hundreds of other songs. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

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Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning composer, dies at age 93
By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer
Sat,01/08/22-12:53PM , 405 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with husband Alan Bergman on “The Way We Were,” “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” and hundreds of other songs, died at her Los Angeles home Saturday. She was 93.
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REMOVES REFERENCE TO THE BAHAMAS - FILE - Actor Sidney Poitier poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. on June 2, 2008. Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. He was 94. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

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Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives
By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer
Fri,01/07/22-5:02PM , 354 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — We go to movies not just to escape, but to discover. We might identify with the cowboy or the runaway bride or the kid who befriends a creature from another planet.

To see yourself on screen has long been another way of knowing you exist.
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