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Obituary: Michael Lawrence
LIBERTY — Michael Jacob Lawrence, 72, died Saturday. Born Dec. 15, 1939, in Nashville, Tenn., he was the son of the late Gilbert and Bertha M. Lawrence. He was a farmer. Survivors include five brothers, Victor (Patty) Lawrence of Windsor, Jerry...Tags: Aurora, Huntley
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Soulful Symphony's 'Evolution'
After a hiatus of more than a year, Soulful Symphony re-emerged last month to perform for a packed house at the Hippodrome Theatre, inaugurating a concert series that continues there Friday night.
Thanks to support from the recently launched Hippodrome...Tags: African-American History Month, Morgan State University, Howard University, Music Industry, Music
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"Shut Down Wall Street" Results In Tension, Arrests
pix11.com | @jamesfordtvThe protesters named their Thursday morning operation "Shut Down Wall Street," even though it only called for people to demonstrate in front of the New York Stock Exchange. In the end, protesters did neither because thousands of cops were mobilized to...Tags: Activism, Politics, Demonstration, New York City Police Department, Financial District
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Selling the dream
I'm not an intellectual. (A friend has removed most of the "ain'ts" and cuss words from this article.) I know something about art, but I'm not powerful or rich. I'm an old man now, tired and with some health issues. So it sometimes amuses me that whenever...Tags: Los Angeles, New York, California, Arts, African Americans
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Out-of-the-way museums offer hidden delights
Special To The SunSprinkled around Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood are some of the city's lesser-known museums. They are not lesser museums, by any means. But it is difficult to stand out in the shadow of the Smithsonian. So these institutions go about their...Tags: George Washington, Woodrow Wilson, New York, Thomas Eakins, Arts
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Komunyakaa's Riff
Northeast MagazineOn Mother's Day, mother was away. For a 17-month-old boy, it is evidently an inconvenience to be the child of two poet-parents. On any given holiday, one of them can stray from Trenton's leafy capital neighborhood to give a reading in a place called New...Tags: Joe Brown, Robert Frost, Timothy McVeigh, Education, Weather
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Works of Jacob Lawrence make a statement
Tribune Staff ReporterThe unique and inimitable African-American artist Jacob Lawrence is featured in a huge new show opening this weekend at Washington's Phillips Collection called "Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence." An Atlantic City, N.J., native,...Tags: Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Entertainment, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Washington (U.S. state), Politics
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Ed-die deserves second shot from O's fans
Sun ColumnistThis weekend he's in town to participate in the Winterfest for Literacy, a baseball autograph and memorabilia show to benefit the Ripken Learning Center. Next week an exhibit he underwrote for $20,000 opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Eddie Murray...Tags: Cal Ripken, Eddie Murray, Baltimore Orioles, Bars and Clubs, Baseball
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