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Little Muscle Shoals, Alabama, boasts a significant legacy as the birthplace of blue, “Brown Sugar,” and miraculous American icons. W.C. Handy, Helen Keller, and Sam Phillips were each born along this sleepy stretch of the Tennessee River in northern Alabama. Keller’s story of overcoming deafness and blindness to become an author and icon was told…

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The remake of the Nintendo game “Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door” will include a trans-identifying character after discourse referring to the character’s gender identity was removed from the original U.S. version of the game. The Paper Mario game was originally released for GameCube in 2004, and Nintendo released a remake for the Nintendo Switch gaming…

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One of the nation’s leading evangelists recently warned Christian parents that Taylor Swift’s newest album contains lyrics that seemingly oppose Christianity. Shane Pruitt, the author of Calling Out the Called and an evangelist who tours with the annual Winter Jam concert, sparked an online debate with comments on his Facebook page that led to over…

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“Mary Poppins” is apparently no longer practically perfect in every way. The beloved Disney classic has been slapped with a rating change in the U.K., losing its “U” rating for “universal,” the equivalent of a “G” rating in the U.S., in favor of a “PG” rating, meaning parental guidance is suggested. Apparently, the 1964 film,…

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