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Facebook, Instagram, Threads down for many users on Tuesday morning

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Facebook, Instagram and Threads were down for many users Tuesday morning. The social media sites are owned by Meta. Recommended Videos The website Down Detector shows that hundreds of thousands of people reported issues with the social media sites shortly after 9 a.m. Meta’s reporting site showed “major disruptions” for the Meta Admin Center as … Read more

San Antonio nonprofit spreads awareness on voting education, voter registration

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SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio nonprofit has been working with schools and organizations to grow youth voting in Bexar County. Last year, Heather Eichling started the nonprofit, Youth Do Vote. “We’ve been building lots of partnerships with school districts, individual schools and teachers and nonprofits,” Heather Eichling, the founder and executive director of Youth … Read more

Some urban lit authors see fiction in the Oscar-nominated ‘American Fiction’

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NEW YORK – Omar Tyree, author of such urban lit narratives as “Flyy Girl” and “The Last Street Novel,” recently went to see the Oscar-nominated movie “American Fiction.” “I loved the emotions of the family,” Tyree said of the comic drama starring best actor nominee Jeffrey Wright as the struggling author-academic Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, Leslie … Read more