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Arlene Dickinson is heading back to the Den. The Canadian entrepreneur and venture capitalist is rejoining the panel of CBC-TV’s Dragons’ Den. After eight seasons on the show, Dickinson left in 2015 to launch District Ventures Capital, a fund aimed at investing in innovative food and health-based businesses. Season 12 will mark the first time Dragons’ Den has a six-person panel with Dickinson joining Jim Treliving, Joe Mimran, Manjit Minhas, Michael Wekerle and Michele Romanow.

Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj will perform at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner this month. Association president Jeff Mason said the choice of Minhaj, whose comedy is often laced with social and political satire, underscored the dinner’s more serious tone this year, with President Donald Trump and his aides skipping the dinner and the usual crowd of Hollywood imports staying home.

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, his celebrated novel about an escaped slave, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Monday’s announcement confirmed the book as the literary event of 2016, an Oprah Winfrey book club pick and critical favourite that last fall received the National Book Award, the first time in more than 20 years the same work won the Pulitzer and National Book Award for fiction.

Patricia C. McKissack, a prolific author of children’s books on African-American history, folklore and stories, has died. She was 72. McKissack and her husband, Fredrick McKissack, published more than 100 books. Patricia’s The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural won a Newbery Honour and the King Author Award in 1993. She and her husband also won a King award for Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? Her latest book, Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out! came out in January.