Magnetek, who has been a poet, archaeologist, anthropologist, activist and art curator, is the author of “MoHagani vs. King ...

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Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century.

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The bright scrapbook-style book includes the stories behind individual stores with a foreord by the late Nikki Giovanni written before her death last December. The collection has been described as a ...