Explosive Device Detonates Outside Alabama Attorney General’s Office

No one was injured in the explosion, which took place in downtown Montgomery one day after the state’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, said that he would not prosecute I.V.F. providers or families seeking the treatment.No one was injured in the explosion, which took place in downtown Montgomery one day after the state’s attorney general, Steve […]

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Why the N.Y. Fire Dept. Canceled Its Black History Month Celebration

A documentary screening about the city’s first Black fire commissioner was scrapped after his family objected to the film’s exclusion of a Black firefighter group.A documentary screening about the city’s first Black fire commissioner was scrapped after his family objected to the film’s exclusion of a Black firefighter group. Read More

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Roni Stoneman, Country Music’s ‘First Lady of the Banjo,’ Dies at 85

A featured player on ‘Hee Haw’ and member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record. ​A featured player on ‘Hee Haw’ and member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record. Read More

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