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Note: This is the second in a five-part series on the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program made possible by generous funding from the Prichard Family Foundation.   The influence of Black gospel music on other genres makes it ripe for study, understanding and appreciation, according to those who are collecting and preserving it for future generations at Baylor University's Black Gospel Music Preservation Program. With an archive of 5,000 vinyl records on the shelves and 48,000 digital tracks, the program is the largest repository of its type in the world. Stephen Newby, who is leading the program as the inaugural Lev H. Prichard III Chair in the Study of Black Worship, said the Baylor collection provides a place and forum to study Black "cultural codes" as described by William Banfield in his book, Cultural Codes: Makings of a Black Music Philosophy . "We get to pay attention to the cues, clues and the codes of what happens in Black life," Newby...

By Express News Service HYDERABAD: Sultan Ul Uloom Educational Society chairman and 'Munsif Urdu' daily chief editor Khan Lateef Mohammed Khan passed away in Chicago today due to health complications. He was 80.   Khan also had a close association with veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar and former Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy.  A huge commercial complex, Lateef Khan estates, constructed by him, is very popular in Hyderabad. Khan moved to US three weeks ago to get himself treated.  Khan's body will be taken to the Muslim Community Center (MCC) in Chicago, where he will be buried. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp Adblock test (Why?)

Demings is a former U.S. representative from Florida who was shortlisted to be President Biden's vice president, and Blunt is a former Republican whip in the House and U.S. senator from Missouri. The event was moderated by Steve Scully, host of The Briefing, a podcast on the POTUS channel of Sirius XM, and senior vice president of communications at BPC. As an introduction, Blunt spoke of growing up on a dairy farm until he entered college, becoming the first in his family to graduate. Originally a history teacher, he fell into a career in public service thanks to a vacancy in his county's office. The youngest of seven children, Demings credited her hardworking childhood environment for her success as a social worker and later Orlando's first female chief of police. Demings, like Blunt, did not plan to be a politician, though a chance meeting with former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi inspired her to pursue public service through government. Roy Blunt and V...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Former President Trump Speaks at CPAC    C-SPAN

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Warren Buffett has long been known as a liberal executive. The Omaha billionaire has contributed millions to pro-choice organizations, he has raised money for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and he often calls for higher taxes on the wealthy. Mr. Buffett's recent annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate he has run for 58 years, boasted that Berkshire had paid $32 billion in taxes over the past decade. He said he hoped to pay more in the future: "We owe the country no less," wrote Mr. Buffett, a Depression-era baby in his 93rd year. Yet as the Berkshire faithful gather for their annual meeting in Omaha on Saturday, Mr. Buffett is decidedly out of step with the progressive orthodoxy in corporate boardrooms. To Mr. Buffett, boards' rightful role is, as ever, to serve the shareholders who have risked their capital. Institutional investors such as BlackRock's Larry Fink have pushed E.S.G. — or environmental, social and governance — investi...