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Angelina Jolie joins producing team for Broadway-bound musical 'The Outsiders'

Angelina Jolie joins producing team for Broadway-bound musical 'The Outsiders'

NEW YORK (AP) — Add Angelina Jolie to the growing list of celebrities lately dipping their toes into producing on Broadway.
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Top New Shows (US): 1. The Really Good Podcast, Bobbi Althoff 2. How Rude, Tanneritos!, iHeartPodcasts 3. The RE—CAP Show: World Cup Edition, RE—INC 4. I Beg Your Pardon, Nurse John 5. The Meatball Pod, Audioboom 6.
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Hip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting

NEW YORK (AP) — In the early days of hip-hop, plugging turntables into a light post and converting an outdoor basketball court into a discotheque may have seemed like a simple invitation to party.
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Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction

Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction

ATLANTA (AP) — Rasheeda Frost’s relationship with hip-hop started in 1981. She was a kindergartener when her mother gave her a record player, and she would continuously spin it, not knowing what it was.
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Hip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there's pride, still hard times

Hip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there's pride, still hard times

BRONX, NEW YORK (AP) — Before it was a global movement, it was simply an expression of life and struggle: a culture that was synonymous with hardship and suffering, but also grit, resilience and creativity.
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Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction

Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction

ATLANTA (AP) — Rasheeda Frost’s decades-long relationship with hip-hop started in 1981. She was a curious, energetic kindergartener — eager to touch and explore anything put in front of her.
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Hip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there's pride, still hard times

Hip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there's pride, still hard times

BRONX, NEW YORK (AP) — Before it was a global movement, it was simply an expression of life and struggle: a culture that was synonymous with hardship and suffering, but also grit, resilience and creativity.
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Sony's profits drop as it warns of the impact from US movie strikes

Sony's profits drop as it warns of the impact from US movie strikes

TOKYO (AP) — Sony’s April-June profit slipped 17% from a year earlier, as worries grew about revenue damage from a strike in the movie sector, the Japanese electronics and entertainment company said Wednesday. Tokyo-based Sony Corp.
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Queen Latifah, Chuck D and more rap legends on 'Rapper's Delight' and their early hip-hop influences

Queen Latifah, Chuck D and more rap legends on 'Rapper's Delight' and their early hip-hop influences

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Remember the first rap song you heard? Some of your favorite rappers and DJs certainly do.
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Tory Lanez gets 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion

Tory Lanez gets 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge sentenced rapper Tory Lanez to 10 years in prison Tuesday for shooting and wounding hip-hop superstar Megan Thee Stallion in the feet, bringing a conclusion to a three-year legal and cultural saga that saw two careers, and
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