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  • Accountability is past due for Kansas newsroom raid

    The Marion County Record somehow managed to publish on schedule the week after police illegally raided its newsroom and publisher's home last August. Kansas Reflector/Sherman Smith. Used with permission. Last year’s tragic raid of the Marion County Record in Kansas has largely left the national headlines, but the story is not over. Investigations into the raid are ongoing and news continues to emerge about additional evidence of Marion officials’ retaliatory motives for...
  • Black Country Music: Tracing Its Past to Beyoncé

    Beyonce’s latest album, “Act ll: Cowboy Carter,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard country albums chart this week, making her the first Black woman to ever top that chart. Alice Randall, novelist and songwriter, most recently author of My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future (Atria/Black Privilege Publishing, 2024), discusses the legacy of Black country music and traces its roots to today's historic achievement.
  • Kuzmenko, Flames rally past Sharks in OT

    SAN JOSE \-\- Andrei Kuzmenko scored at 2:56 of overtime for the Calgary Flames, who came from behind for a 3-2 win against the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center on Tuesday.Kuzmenko won it on a power play when he found a rebound near the left post and scored past a prone Mackenzie Blackwood. He has 11 points (five goals, six assists) during a six-game point streak. Rasmus Andersson and Nazem Kadri also scored, and Dustin Wolf made 20 saves for the Flames (35-37-5), who had lost three straight...