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For weeks, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had promised a vote on Biden's social and climate agenda before Christmas. But all 50 senators in caucus have not been able to unify behind the plan.

Singer-songwriter Jessy Wilson was ready to walk away from music until her song "Keep Rising" was chosen as the closing anthem for the movie The Woman King.

Join art and music historian Victoria Martino on a five-week art and music lecture series to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, as she begins a five-week course in honor of the poet’s power of inspiration, ranging from medieval to modern times. Dates | Tuesdays, September 14, 21, 28, and October 5, 12, at 6:30 p.m. Full schedule: • September 14: Dante’s Florence: La Vita Nuova • September 21: Life in Exile: La Divina Commedia • September 28: La Divina Commedia - Inferno • October 5: La Divina Commedia - Purgatorio • October 12: La Divina Commedia - Paradiso Register here! Five-lecture package for members: $70 plus fees Five-lecture package for non-members: $95 plus fees Individual lecture for members: $16 plus fees Individual lecture for non-members: $21 plus feesVictoria Martino studied the "La Divina Commedia" in the original Italian at Harvard University, with legendary Dante scholar Dante Della Terza. She analyzed and wrote on the relationship between Dante’s text and William Blake’s watercolor illustrations in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums. This lecture series is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Professor Della Terza, who passed away on April 6, 2021. For more information, please visit ljathenaeum.org or contact Athenaeum Music & Arts Library at info@ljathenaeum.org or call (858) 454-5872.

At the start of 2021, people knew that President Biden had promised to end the war in Afghanistan. They did not know how it would conclude.

Hear stories from New Orleans saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr.'s upbringing, words from his mentee, drummer Joe Dyson, and a performance on his home turf recorded at Snug Harbor.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presents "Yolanda Lopez: Portrait of the Artist." On display Saturday, Oct. 16 through Sunday, April 24, 2022 "Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist" is the first solo museum presentation of one of the most influential Chicano artists working in California over the past five decades. The exhibition presents a compendium of López’s work from the 1970s and 1980s, when she created a vivid body of paintings, drawings, and collages that reimagine representations of women within Chicano/a/x culture and society at large. Bringing together approximately 50 works in oil pastel, charcoal, collage, photography, and paint, Portrait of the Artist centers on the artist’s celebrated Guadalupe triptych and an expansive series of related works. Located Downtown - 1100 Kettner Boulevard Free Admission. Visit mcasd.org

In 1973, Littlefeather provided one of the most dramatic moments in Oscar history: Offering Brando's regrets for refusing the award because of Hollywood's treatment and portrayal of Native Americans.

For movies, there are the Oscars. For music, the Grammys. For television, the Emmys. And for video games, The Game Awards.

The Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon has been without clean drinking water for years, the just-passed infrastructure bill promises to fix that.

Gov. Steve Sisolak apologized on behalf of his state and promised to cooperate with an investigation of the federal government's past policies and oversight of Native American boarding schools.