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...Walker is tremendous as the schoolteacher: very funny, sharp as tacks, electrifying in her energy and enthusiasm....
...It’s a history of black women musicians, from Aretha Franklin to Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, and shows how they’ve informed intellectual life and the black female sound....
...Embroidery was a family pursuit; William had taught himself when he was young, and both Jane Morris and May’s aunt Bessie Burden were experts (embroiderers today still wrestle with the Burden stitch)....
...And what does either of them have in common with Kara Walker’s blistering shadow puppets? One of the things that the curators adamantly declare the show not to be about is race....
...Bessie bites back Thursday’s Lombard note about the “merger of eatables” between Greencore and Northern Foods triggered a response from Aunt Bessie herself, or at least her minders....
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