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Colin Warren-Hicks is a features reporter, covering arts and entertainment and general assignment features. A North Carolina native, he graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill before earning a journalism degree from NYU. He loves story tips about extraordinary circumstances, eccentrics, has-beens, would-bes and never-wills. Send them his way!
Portsmouth native and hip-hop star Missy Elliott returned to her hometown Monday afternoon for the dedication ceremony of “Missy Elliott Boulevard” held at her alma mater, Manor High School.
Sources have described Lawrence as a "rock star of his time" and said that, for decades, he was one of the few African American artists to be firmly established in the canon of art history — "not just in American art, but in art history, generally."