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Oklahoma country station plays Beyoncé’s new track after outcry from Beyhive

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy An Oklahoma country radio station’s initial decision to not play Beyoncé‘s new country single, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” has changed thanks to her fans. A fan named Justin took to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday to share the response he received from his local station KYKC after requesting the song via email.…

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On this day in Black history: Moorehouse College founded, Malcolm X’s final speech, Boyz II Men and more

On this day in Black history, February 14: — In 1867, Augusta Institute was founded in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia. The private historically Black men’s liberal arts school would later become Morehouse College to honor Henry Lyman Morehouse. — In 1965, Malcolm X delivered his “Speech at Ford Auditorium” in Detroit, following the bombing of his…

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Jon Batiste reveals sweet backstory behind Oscar-nominated “It Never Went Away”

ABC/Michael Le Brecht II The backstory behind Jon Batiste‘s Oscar-nominated song “It Never Went Away” from Netflix’s American Symphony is a sweet one. It was written as a lullaby for his wife, Suleika Jaouad [Su-lake-uh Ja-wad], who was battling leukemia, he told Billboard.  “She is a best-selling author and couldn’t put pen to paper because the medication blurred her vision badly,”…

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Usher after leaving Super Bowl halftime stage: “God’s always working in perfect timing”

L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images When Usher got off the stage after performing for 15 minutes straight during the Super Bowl 58 halftime show, his message was simple: God is great.  “God is real, man,” he told Access Hollywood. “The idea that we pray and wonder sometime why things happen the way they do. God’s…