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May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19. @BarackObama @MarkHamill

I 'luvbs' me some her. 😘Keep getting better.

John Williams 🎩🪄 Main Title from Star Wars: A New Hope 🎬 Performed with the Wiener Philharmoniker. May the Fourth be with you ✨ #StarWarsDay

May the 4th be with you! When Kamala Harris was a senator, she met Mark Hamill backstage at the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show. Kamala: “I met Mark Hamill. And literally, I met Luke Skywalker. He said to me that the force is with me. I almost started crying.” 😂

New video celebrating the generations of 'STAR WARS.'

Outlander may begin in fiction, but its legacy is being written across Scotland: in visitor books, small businesses, and the ways the nation chooses to tell its own story in response, writes Dr Alexandra Dold ✍️

@Dr_TheHistories A "glimpse"

Michael Jackson couldn’t read sheet music and wasn’t a trained instrumentalist, but he composed like a human multitrack recorder. Instead of writing notes, he 'sang' every part of a song into a tape machine, drums, basslines, guitar riffs, horn stabs, string sections, harmonies, even reverb cues. Engineers said he’d walk into the studio with the entire arrangement already finished in his head. He’d beatbox the groove, layer vocalized bass and chords, then sing each string line one by one until the full orchestration existed as stacked vocal tracks. Musicians would then translate those vocal sketches into instruments, often discovering that his “sung” arrangements were harmonically complex and rhythmically precise. This wasn’t a gimmick, it was how he built some of his biggest hits. Billie Jean, Beat It, Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough, and Smooth Criminal all began as fully voiced demos where every element was performed with his mouth. Producers repeatedly said he had perfect internal pitch and could recall entire arrangements days later without hearing them again. What looked like a limitation, not reading music, became his superpower: he composed directly from imagination to sound, without ever touching a piano. © Reddit #drthehistories

I watched this countless times…. Michael Jackson’s tap dancing isn't spoken about enough. The versatility this man has is INSANE.

Fun Fact: Michael was also an amazing tap dancer, and that’s why most of his iconic dance moves were tap dance influenced. Just look at this teenage genius!!

The Wire - TV series.

“All of us are in danger of losing our work to AI”: Sting says the message of his musical, “The Last Ship,” though it’s set in the 1980s, is still relevant in the face of a changing technological landscape. Watch more on Sunday.

Next time you see this painting, remember the artist behind it — Annie Lee didn’t pursue art professionally until age 40

BREAKING: Pope Leo appoints a Black vocal Trump critic to be a new bishop for Washington in a clear message to the President, his racist regime and his warmongering! Trump and Pete Hegseth are going to HATE this… The Holy Father announced that Rev. Robert Boxie III would become the youngest bishop in the United States, appointing him to be an auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of Washington. Rev. Boxie has previously been very critical of the Trump administration’s crusade against DEI and eliminating Black people from employment in the federal government. In an interview with Catholic Review, Boxie said that “It’s really frustrating — especially this moment that we’re living in. The attacks on ‘DEI’ — I don’t even know what that means anymore. It’s a term that’s been hijacked. It means a lot of things to a lot of different people.” “I think at its core, it’s what America is all about. We are a diverse nation with people from all over the world. Diversity is a good thing. Diversity is of God.” “And the fact that it’s been turned into something negative — or something that should be avoided or not talked about — just flies in the face of who we are as Americans.” “So much of our history has been exclusive, especially when it comes to race. And it’s just un-American; it’s un-Christian; it’s anti-Catholic.” He couldn’t be more right. The reason that DEI programs exist is because racial discrimination and white supremacy are hardcoded into American society and all American institutions. We saw this first-hand just this week when the Supreme Court gutted Section II of the Voting Rights Act and every red state began foaming at the mouth to strip political representation away from Black voters. Our history and our present is exclusive, and the anti-DEI campaigns of the right-wing show that we were correct to have them and need to redouble our efforts once we’re back in power. Rev. Boxie certainly has the resume to be an auxiliary bishop and well-deserves the role; but his placement in Washington feels like it carries a symbolic weight to it that matters greatly in this era of ignorance and contempt. Congratulations, Rev. Boxie!

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THE MOMENT HAILEY BAPTISTE BEAT ARYNA SABALENKA IN MADRID Utterly unreal 6 match points saved against the world #1 and defending champion She will reach a new career high ranking of #24, & she could go even higher Look at that reaction 100% heart 🇺🇸🥹

MICHAEL has officially become yesterday the fastest movie of the year to cross the $100M mark at the domestic box office. It’s now tracking to hit $400M worldwide this coming weekend in just 10 days.

@Blacklanderz @Ayana80Smith Brilliant as always. Such fun to read!

@CharmingStation @Ayana80Smith Thank you!😘

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