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The Pulitzer Prize winner, whose music enveloped everything from the horrors of the Vietnam War to the calls of humpback whales, died Sunday.

Michael Chiklis stars as rogue detective Vic Mackey in the TV series The Shield; the Peabody Award-winning show is in its seventh season on the FX cable channel.

Actress LisaRaye has released photos to Essence magazine of what she says is domestic abuse. Plus, there's going to be a whole lot of Hollywood in Denver next week. For more, Farai Chideya speaks with Newsweek magazine national correspondent Allison Samuels.

Sixty years ago, a string of scandals emerged around "fixed" TV quiz shows. When the popular program Dotto was suddenly pulled from the air, answers were difficult to come by. The scandals changed the business of television in the U.S.

Nigeria moves to center stage, as the Africa Rising Music and Fashion Festival prepares for its Washington debut. The festival was started as a way to reflect Africa's social, political and economical culture. Journalist Nduka Obaigbena, founder of the festival, and Nigerian fashion icon Fati Mohammed Asibelua discuss Africa Rising.

Americans spend millions on beauty products, trendy clothes, and plastic surgery. Is America obsessed with beauty? That's a question filmmaker Darryl Roberts explored in his new documentary, American the Beautiful.

Transvestites performing at a legendary night club in Washington, D.C., braced for the worst when news came that construction of a fancy new baseball stadium would likely oust their treasured meeting place. Washington Post Magazine writer Lonnae O'Neal Parker and self-described drag queen Carl Rizzie, aka "Mame Dennis," discuss how the once-thriving community is moving on.

A landmark film about the lives of Native Americans in 1950s Los Angeles has been given a new life. Thanks to the efforts of filmmaker Charles Burnett and award-winning author Sherman Alexie, the 1961 film The Exiles has been restored. Burnett and Alexie speak about the film's significance and relevance more than 40 years after its release.

Shawn Ryan, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed FX drama, The Shield, discusses his involvement in the series.

The Oval Office has become fashionable again as Tyra Banks morphs into Michelle Obama for Harper's Bazaar magazine. Plus, what's with the friction between Barbara Walters and Sherri Shepherd of The View? Allison Samuels has the latest.