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Biden Awards Arts & Humanities Medals to 23 Honorees

By Meagan Vazquez President Joe Biden will award the 2021 National Humanities Medals and the National Medal of Arts at a ceremony for the first time since taking office, according to the White House. The National Medal of the Arts is the highest American award given to artists, art patrons, and groups that have advanced

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Amazon’s Underground Railroad: Hypnotic Yet Lengthy Series

Review by Brian Lowry “The Underground Railroad” has an almost dreamlike quality, exploring an alternate history of the antebellum South that filters Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book through “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins’ lens. But the emotional wallop delivered by Amazon’s beautifully rendered limited series is somewhat offset by the journey’s length, stretching about six terrific

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