Aretha Franklin is still getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T after death: The Queen of Soul received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor Monday, becoming the first individual woman to earn a special citation prize since the honor was first awarded in 1930.
The Pulitzer board said the award was given to Franklin for “her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades.”
- Really? They’re just getting around to this?
Runaway Negro Creek is no more. It's now called Freedom Creek.
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted Thursday to rename the 1.5-mile creek near Skidaway Island. Opponents of the creek's former name said it was culturally insensitive and offensive.
A dog found swimming more than 220 kilometers (135 miles) from shore by workers on an oil rig crew in the Gulf of Thailand has been returned safely to land.
Georgia Engel, whose distinctive voice and pinpoint comic timing made her a memorable part of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” on which she played Georgette Franklin, girlfriend and eventually wife of the buffoonish TV newsman Ted Baxter, died on Friday in Princeton, N.J. She was 70.
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Notre Dame burns, and Trump still wants to be a fireman when he grows up. Does Barr have Russia ties? More relevant: he’s got a history of misleading Congress about confidential reports that he “summarizes.” Watergate’s grand jury foreman speaks.