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The 'Lighthouse' In The Forest
The Hartford CourantAs we walked through the deep woods, the Barkhamsted Lighthouse remained hidden, yet it was all around us. Suddenly, my guide — Ken Feder, an anthropology professor at Central Connecticut State University — stopped before a grove of giant...Tags: Minority Groups, Metal and Mineral, Forestry and Timber, Central Connecticut State University, Barkhamsted
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This fall, a Black Ensemble Theater transformed
Jackie Taylor, the founder and artistic director of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater, is staring at an utterly transformative fall.
On Nov. 18, the $19 million new Black Ensemble Theater will open at the hitherto moribund 4450 North Clark St.,...Tags: Ticketmaster, Music Theater, Public Employees, Foods and Beverages, Illinois Governor
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An author's irrepressible spirit comes through at Court Theatre
When George C. Wolfe's "Spunk" was first staged at New York's Public Theater in 1990, it was greeted as a kind of rediscovery of the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, the author of the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," who fell out of popular...Tags: Minority Groups, Zora Neale Hurston, Abusive Behavior
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Small town memories from the Dismal Swamp
Corapeake, N.C., is the kind of small rural Southern town that you can easily miss if you sneeze while you're driving.
Located on the western fringes of the Great Dismal Swamp — and a dozen or so miles south of Suffolk near the Virginia border...Tags: Minority Groups, Arts and Culture, Documentary (genre), Suffolk (Suffolk, Virginia), Wetlands
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Newton: Creating a Latino district
There are two conversations going on inside the L.A. County Hall of Administration about the delicate matter of redrawing maps for the supervisorial districts. Both will come to a head Tuesday, but only one will be publicly acknowledged.
The surface...Tags: Kamala D. Harris, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Don Knabe, Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics
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Saving us from 'the others'?
In many ways we're hard-wired by evolution to distrust others, a kind of a survival defense when meeting folks who aren't members of our "tribe." One of the legacies of 9/11 is a hatred of Muslims completely out of proportion to their number and influence...Tags: Minority Groups, Forests, Judaism, Forestry and Timber, New York City
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In Chicago's 'Clybourne Park,' everything and nothing seem to change
If you question whether the discussion of Chicago's racist history can still cause shivers among modern-day Chicago theatergoers, you need only watch what happens at the Steppenwolf Theatre in the first act of Bruce Norris' searing play "Clybourne Park."...Tags: Minority Groups, Whole Foods Market, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Amy Morton, Steppenwolf Theatre
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Settlement of IMPD minority lawsuit pending
Fox59 News has learned that Public Safety Director Frank Straub is seeking support of the Fraternal Order of Police to settle a lawsuit filed by black police officers claiming discrimination in IMPD promotions practices.
The lawsuit dates back to...Tags: Minority Groups, Litigation, Justice System, 2010 Census, File Sharing
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Merit Board to hear IMPD minority promotions
Public Safety Director Frank Straub is expected to propose promotions for a number of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers Tuesday morning to settle existing lawsuits and complaints in a plan that even Mayor Ballard acknowledges may not...Tags: File Sharing, Politics, Safety of Citizens, Trials, Litigation and Regulation
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Congo Square makes a move
Chicago's Congo Square Theatre Company is moving to Stage 773. The African-American theater company, known for the quality of its work and its administrative struggles, was formerly working at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, now leased to a...Tags: Minority Groups, Arts and Culture, Congo, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Goodman Theatre
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Theme of hope present in upcoming Civil War exhibit
By Rebecca Massie Lane Special to The Herald-Mail With 23,110 casualties, the Battle of Antietam remains a day of great loss for America and it stimulated a chain of events leading to the Emancipation Proclamation and the Battle of Gettysburg. The...Tags: American Civil War (1861-1865), Wars and Interventions, Fine Arts, Technology, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Shuttle program opened doors for minorities, women
In 1972, President Nixon gave his blessing to ramp up Apollo's successor, the Space Transportation System (STS). Two years later, work began on the first space shuttle, a test vehicle that NASA planned to christen Constitution.
Those plans changed...Tags: Science, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Politics, Richard Nixon, Technology
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