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The rapper was only 24 years old when he was shot and killed in Los Angeles.

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First known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she later became an avid proselytizer for his vision of peace ...

Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression.

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon deputy assistant who revealed the existence of the Oval Office’s secret taping system, has died at 99. His 1973 testimony during Watergate investigations exposed the ...