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...collaborated in a new offering with Sanderson, while Sanderson’s sister brands also have new designs: Zoffany has new collections of damasks, stripes, and moire; Harlequin is collaborating with designer Sophie Robinson...
...Decade by decade, from Paul Thompson’s middle-aged, spectacled “Dr Mary Walker, the first woman to wear trousers in public” (1911), belonging to Vanity Fair, to Jack Robinson’s nude portrait of black singer...
...But my absolute favourite piece was Jackie Wullschläger’s account of Pablo Picasso’s current standing in the art world....
...Born one of eight children to a boilermaker’s assistant and tavern owner in Mobile, Alabama, Aaron was inspired to take up baseball after listening to a speech by Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 became the...
...Robinson in “42.”...
...For Boseman, whose death followed a long battle with colon cancer, it propelled a career marked by acclaimed roles in movies such as 42, the Jackie Robinson biopic, or Get on Up, about the life of James...
...Thus, with a wonderfully light touch, curators Ann Dumas and William Robinson pinpoint pieces that illuminate the last century’s history, as well as Picasso’s....
...There is a long history of black US athletes, including boxer Muhammad Ali and baseball player Jackie Robinson, using their influence to take stands against racial inequality....
...Jackie Onassis, that is. Here she is in summer party mode, but you can buy her former estate in Martha’s Vineyard. $65m and it’s yours....
...“It’s like Reverend Jesse Jackson always said, baseball became a better sport after Jackie Robinson started to play.”...
...“Cyprus Avenue” was a roiling blues, the music ebbing and flowing, with cascading vibraphone from Robinson....
...Just like they said to Jackie Robinson, just stay here in the Black League . . . You cannot be deterred.”...
...Jackie Robinson, who famously broke Major League Baseball’s “colour line” in 1947 similarly had played football and basketball for UCLA in the 1930s....
...Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball's colour barrier in 1947, and Martin Luther King Jr. said it helped spark the civil rights movement....
...Just like they said to Jackie Robinson, just stay here in the Black League . . . You cannot be deterred.” A waiter brings the sea bass whole for Jordan to inspect....
...Another presents a baseball — one leather-bound sphere among a jillion identical ones, except that it was signed by Jackie Robinson, a Dodger in his career but a giant in the history of race relations....
...After the second world war came the struggle for desegregation, as personified by the black baseball player, Jackie Robinson....
...Mr Paul then went on to name — co-opting them to the cause — previous luminaries of sport who had some emancipatory role: “Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, Kareem...
...The most modest, and in many ways the most potent, performance is that of Caroline Faber as Margaret, Doris’s daughter, Jackie’s actual and Rosie’s surrogate mother....
...In the pantheon of 20th century American sports, few can be rated in Ali’s league: the boxer Joe Louis, perhaps, certainly Babe Ruth of baseball, possibly Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball’s colour bar...
...“Under the SNP government it has suffered from a lack of resources and a sticking-plaster approach,” said Jackie Baillie, Scottish Labour’s public services spokesperson....
...It was a time of legends — Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Willie Mays....
...Additional reporting by Jackie Cai...
...Robinson was to baseball....
...In 1960, Smokey Robinson’s group The Miracles were ordered to the studio at 3am by a sleepless Gordy in order to recut their song “Shop Around”....
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