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FILE – Rock star Sylvester “Sly” Stone of Sly and the Family Stone, April 1972. (AP Photo, File)

Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82

June 9, 2025 at 6:24 p.m.

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,”...

Author Edmund White appears at his home in New York, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

Groundbreaking gay author Edmund White dies at 85

June 4, 2025 at 4:33 p.m.

Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, plays and such novels as “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Beautiful Room...

A 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence is displayed at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia on June 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions

April 23, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

On Wednesday, Random House announced that it would publish a hardcover book in July combining the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, followed in November by a hardcover edition...

FILE – In this 1993 file photo, actor Gene Hackman is seen. (AP Photo/File)

Actor Gene Hackman, raised in Danville, found dead at home along with his wife

February 27, 2025 at 10:59 a.m.

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, has been found...

Singer Roberta Flack poses for a portrait in New York on Oct. 10, 2018. A representative for Roberta Flack has announced that the legendary singer has ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and can no longer sing.

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88

February 24, 2025 at 3:02 p.m.

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other...

FILE – Author Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait to promote his book “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder”, at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Germany, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Author Salman Rushdie testifies about his shock and pain as a stranger repeatedly stabbed him on stage

February 11, 2025 at 5:43 p.m.

Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him...

Gene Barge, a member of Thomas "Tom Tom" Washington's South Side Big Band rehearses at SoundMine Studios on Stony Island Avenue in Chicago on July 28, 2014. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

Gene Barge, renowned sax man and producer known as ‘Daddy G,’ dies at 98

February 5, 2025 at 9:48 a.m.

Gene “Daddy G” Barge, an admired and durable saxophone player, songwriter and producer died in his sleep Sunday at his home in Chicago.

FILE – British actress and singer Marianne Faithfull poses during a photo-call for her movie ‘Irina Palm’ at the 57th International Film Festival Berlin ‘Berlinale’ in Berlin, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Marianne Faithfull, singer and pop icon, dies at 78

January 30, 2025 at 1:06 p.m.

Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and...

Percival Everett arrives at the Booker Prize award dinner in London, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

Percival Everett’s ‘James’ awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction

January 27, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Percival Everett’s “James” was this year’s winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash award.

FILE – The water in the Gulf of Mexico appears bluer than usual off of East Beach, Saturday, June 24, 2023, in Galveston, Texas. (Jill Karnicki/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

President Donald Trump’s geographic renaming plans leave mapmakers pondering what to do next

January 23, 2025 at 9:45 a.m.

Trump’s territorial assertions, in line with his “America First” worldview, sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other...

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