Fossils of an ape that lived 8.7 million years ago in what is now Turkey are challenging long-accepted ideas of human evolution.

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Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American, is to be staged for the first time.

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The nuns at the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus say Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who died in 2019 at age 95, may be a saint.

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

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