The broadcasting organization publicly reversed course after an initial media report about the email to Shapiro.

NPR urged its longtime host, Ari Shapiro, one of its most visible gay employees, not to attend a Pride event – and later ...

NPR backtracked after telling an openly gay host not to attend a corporate "Pride" event after an email was mistakenly sent to the staff.

NPR abruptly reversed its decision to bar anchor Ari Shapiro from attending a corporate LGBTQ Pride event—after a misfired email exposed the conversation.

An email regarding an employee's intention to attend a LGBTQ pride event was unintentionally sent an array staff, resulting ...

A dramatic turnaround unfolded Wednesday at National Public Radio after the organization discouraged longtime anchor Ari ...

D’Wayne Wiggins, singer and guitarist for the popular R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné! has died after a battle with cancer, his family announced on the group’s verified social media Friday.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. D’Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone! poses for a portrait in New York on Sept. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Gary ...

Wiggins, 64, was a founding member of Tony! Toni! Toné!, a Bay Area R&B trio that rose to prominence in the late 1980s. Wiggins’ brother Raphael Saadiq and cousin Timothy Christian Riley rounded out ...

(KRON) — D’Wayne Wiggins, guitarist and founding member of Tony! Toni! Tone!, has died, according to a social media post from his family. The guitarist, who was a native of Oakland, had been ...

Grammy-nominated singer and guitarist D'Wayne W i ggins, a founding member of the seminal R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné!, has died, the group announced Friday on social media. He was 64.

OAKLAND, Calif. - D'Wayne Wiggins, the guitarist of Oakland's own Tony! Toni! Toné!, has died after a battle with bladder cancer, his family announced Friday. The band had shared Wednesday that ...