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...A hint of another children’s classic, Whistle Down the Wind, comes with the appearance of a black American GI (KJ Aikens), hiding out with a tale of violent bullying by US military police....
...As if channelling Bobbie Gentry, the Texan singer matched dark eye make-up and velvet black centre-parted hair with a sequinned rainbow-coloured trouser suit. Musgraves can’t resist a bit of kitsch....
...A well-executed version of Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” revealed a taste for gothic-toned, literary songwriting: Cash is a published short-story writer herself....
...Marc Lamont Hill, a media professor at the city’s Temple University and the owner of Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books in Philadelphia, one of the few black-owned coffee shops in the city, said companies such...
...Starbucks shuts stores to give its staff anti-racial bias training After the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks café in Philadelphia, the coffee chain shut more than 8,000 of its stores on Tuesday to...
...The single “Formation” allied her with the Black Lives Matter movement, realised brilliantly at the Super Bowl, in February, where she performed the song with a troupe of Black Panther-esque backing dancers...
...My personal style signifiers are dark-framed glasses of my own design worn with a black jacket – Chanel or Barneys own label – and tailored black jeans; I have more than 30 pairs and like Rag & Bone....
...Another cover, “Ode to Billie Joe”, made Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 smash sparse and folkloric, Leventhal’s accompaniment ticking over with the merest twang of a groove....
...Constance Briscoe, one of the first black women to become a part-time judge, is on trial facing three counts of perverting the course of justice. She denies any wrongdoing....
...Country Funk 1969-75 identifies a new grouping – white singers from the deep south who trampled on Jim Crow’s grave by adopting the funky sound of black America....
...Under the sure-handed direction of Walter Bobbie, the cast of The Submission strive to compensate for this interval-less work’s at times distracting excitability (there’s a lot of shouting.)...
...Bobbie (Roberta), Phyllis and Peter are at the start the children of well-heeled Edwardian burghers....
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