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Handymen swear by these cheap tricks to make your home look more expensive

Even when the budget for that isn’t there, you can still improve your spaces dramatically.

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George E. Johnson Sr., founder of a pioneering Black hair care business, dies at 99

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The Independent UK

5 Quincy Jones songs producers need to hear

In tribute to Quincy Jones, who has passed away aged 91 it’s time to take some tips from the master

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“We had it in about two takes. The funk was there as soon as we hit it”: Watch Louis 'thunder thumbs' Johnson slap a classic bass solo on the Brothers Johnson’s Stomp!

Johnson used a Music Man StingRay (which he helped design), and strung it with new D’Addario roundwounds

Guitar World

How book-banning campaigns have changed the lives and education of librarians – they now need to learn how to plan for safety and legally protect themselves

Despite misconceptions and stereotypes – ranging from what librarians Gretchen Keer and Andrew Carlos have described as the “middle-aged, bun-wearing, comfortably shod, shushing librarian” to the “sexy librarian … and the hipster or tattooed librarian” – library professionals are more than book jockeys, and they do more than read at…

The Conversation

How a pair of weight-lifting gloves helped Louis Johnson play slap bass

Louis Johnson: “I wear gloves to slow me down. When I take them off, it makes me play too fast”

Guitar World

The full list of Welsh people in the King's New Year's Honours list

Special honours have been given to people who make outstanding contributions to their community and the country

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Book bans are an attack on freedom to read, teach and learn

We cannot build a future together if we are not willing to honestly face the truth about our past and our present.

Chicago Sun-Times

Amid book challenges, parents and censorship foes raise alarms

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County, Florida, Public Schools removed one book from school libraries this fall because of a parent’s complaint about sexually explicit content and three others face reviews, including a memoir by a gay Black author already ousted from school libraries in Florida and several other states.

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