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Committee seeks names for Annapolis marker honoring March on Washington
A committee building a new memorial in Annapolis has extended the deadline for names of those who took part in the August 1963 March on Washington, where the Rev. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. The committee had initially...
Tags: Anne Arundel Community College, Annapolis, Martin Luther King Jr., Human Interest
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Judy Juanita and her 'Virgin Soul'
In the late 1960s, Judy Juanita was a college undergraduate in the Bay Area and editor of a Black Panther Party newspaper. Now her new novel, "Virgin Soul" (Viking, $26.95), recounts the story of Geniece, an undergraduate who joins the Panthers. But...Tags: Cultural Development, LSD, Culture, Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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A rosy new stage for Sugar Blue
These are very sweet days for Sugar Blue. In a few months, he'll be a father once more, his wife and bass player Ilaria Lantieri expecting their first child together in late May or early June. In the meantime, the two — who own a home in...
Tags: Music, Tameka Cottle, Dexter Gordon, Lionel Hampton, James Cotton
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Prefer not to? Kevin Smokler says you should reread 'Bartleby'
It's almost as if Kevin Smokler found himself in 30-something detention: well into adulthood, he was sentenced to go back and re-read the books he read in high school English class. He might have escaped if he hadn't been passing notes in class written...Tags: Authors, David Foster Wallace, Google+, Beyonce, Steve Harvey
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Martin Luther King Jr.: 12 essential reads
Today the nation honors the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the reverend and activist who led the American civil rights movement. As King studied nonviolence as practiced by Gandhi and imagined by Henry David Thoreau, now his own life and work are the...Tags: FBI, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Stanford University, Langston Hughes, Entertainment Events
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Emily Raboteau's fresh exploration of identity and faith
-------------------- Searching for Zion The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora Emily Raboteau Atlantic Monthly Press: 320 pp., $25 -------------------- In 1965, author and civil rights essayist James Baldwin appeared at the Cambridge Union...Tags: Slavery, William F. Buckley, Judaism, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Jamaica
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Nathan Englander examines identity
Every journalist's nightmare is the interview with the subject who responds to questions with one-sentence (or even one-word) answers. Fortunately, the writer Nathan Englander — who was in Chicago recently as the inaugural Crown Speaker Series...Tags: Authors, Long Island, Saul Bellow, Judaism, Nassau County
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As 'Bastard out of Carolina' turns 20, Dorothy Allison reflects on her career
In her potent memoir and manifesto, “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure,” Dorothy Allison writes, “Oh, I could tell you stories that would darken the sky and stop the blood.” And then she declares, “I am not here to make...
Tags: Authors, Chicago Humanities Festival, Harold Washington Library Center, Arts and Culture, Feminism
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Police Asking for Help Finding Missing Kalamazoo Township Man
FOX 17 Web ProducerKalamazoo Township Police Department is asking for help finding a man who has been missing for four days, according to his family. Family members say James William Baldwin, 39, was last seen on Friday, Oct. 26 in the early the evening. He's said to be... -
Chinese-American novelist to speak at UM
Maxine Hong Kingston's most recent book, "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life" — possibly the last from this pioneering Chinese-American novelist, memoirist, poet and activist — includes a glossary to help readers with all the loan words. "I...
Tags: Authors, Coral Gables, Justice and Rights, Zora Neale Hurston, David Henry Hwang
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Toni Morrison leads U.S. delegation at Festival America in France
VINCENNES, France -- I am one of about five dozen invitees to the biennial Festival America book fair just outside Paris. Toni Morrison is the guest of honor at the event, which brings together authors from the Americas. Jennifer Egan is here too, along...
Tags: William Faulkner, Korean War (1950-1953), Wars and Interventions, France, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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PASSINGS: Ron Palillo, Al Freeman Jr., James M. Naughton
Ron Palillo Actor played Arnold Horshack on 'Kotter' Ron Palillo, 63, an actor whose signature role was Arnold Horshack in the 1970s TV sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Tuesday of a heart attack in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., said his agent, Jackie...
Tags: Gerald Ford, Obituaries, The A-Team (movie), Broadway Theater, Malcolm X
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