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First Strokes, a nonprofit based in New York City, is helping students learn water safety skills and how to swim. They offer free swimming lessons for teens — taught by other teens.
Live Nation is the biggest live-events company in the world. Court records and federal citations show that the company was already linked to 200 other deaths and 750 injuries before Friday’s tragedy.
Following a trial that lasted seven weeks, a jury in Brooklyn found the disgraced R&B star guilty on Monday.
The first federal trial against disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly is underway. Tenacious reporting has explicitly centered the mostly Black girls and women who have accused him.
It’s been two years since the R&B singer and songwriter was arrested. His first federal trial is about to begin in New York, but a lot has happened in the interim. Here’s what you’ve missed.
The R&B star singer has been dogged for decades by allegations that he has sexually abused underage girls and women. Kelly now faces 10 counts of abuse.
Andrea Kelly appeared on the ABC talk show The View last Thursday and recounted episodes of alleged abuse and isolation, saying that her experiences closely mirrored other women’s allegations.
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A lawyer for the 20-year-old woman, Faith A. Rodgers, says that she is the same person who filed a criminal complaint against the R&B singer in Dallas.
A pair of articles published on Friday by BuzzFeed News and the Washington Post include allegations of sexual and physical abuse from three women who were all teenagers when they met the singer.
The Women of Color committee within the Time’s Up movement called on RCA Records, Ticketmaster, Spotify and Apple Music to cut ties to the singer accused of sexual misconduct.
Following published accusations of sexual abuse and molestation against conductor James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera has suspended him after a four-decade relationship.
Cassidy’s role as an adolescent aspiring musician on the TV show The Partridge Family turned him into a real-life, teen-dream pop idol.
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The rhythm-and-blues legend who became one of the progenitors of rock ‘n’ roll — and reportedly sold more than 65 million records along the way — died Tuesday at the age of 89.
The American rock singer, who fronted The Heartbreakers and was also beloved as a member of The Traveling Wilburys, has died after suffering cardiac arrest.
The group’s debut album was an unlikely smash: old-fashioned songs performed by mostly elderly Cuban musicians. Two decades later, its impact still resonates on the island — and beyond.
One of the lead singers of the band Linkin Park, which found great success in the early 2000s, died Thursday in Los Angeles.
The former president is planning a space in which artists like Bruce Springsteen and Chance the Rapper can create music that has “social commentary and meaning.”
Tied to the one-year anniversary of her Lemonade project, she will be funding “Formation Scholars” at four institutions of higher learning, including two historically black colleges.