This year’s annual Country Music Awards was not marked by tragedy, but rather hope and some good ol’ fashioned Nashville perseverance. Carrie Underwood took time out of the award show’s standard “in memoriam” segment—which recognized country music artists who have passed away this year, such as legends Don Williams and Glen Campbell—to also pay tribute…
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PHOTO: Courtesy of 20th Century Fox It has been a big year for Katherine Johnson, the “human computer” who served as the brains behind NASA’s launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Hidden Figures, the movie based on her inspiring—though, until recently, largely unknown—career premiered in January 2017. Taraji P. Henson portrayed Johnson onscreen, and…
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PHOTO: Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images After an incredibly tense week at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, including highly charged fallout over President Trump‘s offensive comments and tweets following the rallies and violence in Charlottesville, the White House announced Saturday that neither Trump nor First Lady Melania Trump will attend the 40th Kennedy Center Honors on December 3.…
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