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...For bassist Orlando le Fleming, the band name Romantic Funk conjures the rhythmic complexities of Weather Report rather than the luxuriant vocals of Luther Vandross....
...A young girl dressed in white shorts and a blue shirt stands in front of her grandfather, her hands clasped behind her back. Her grandfather is hunched over, resting against a wood-panelled wall....
...Monday 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington Japan: the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency is scheduled...
...If you are a world leader or senior executive at least you have the World Economic Forum in Davos to distract you from the January blues....
...US markets are closed for the Martin Luther King Jr holiday, after Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 notched its largest weekly gain in two months on Friday....
...He was perspiring gently in a loosely buttoned blue shirt, shorts and sandals. He held a large, sharp knife and was about to show me the outcome of his two decades of work....
...Letter in response to this article: A victory lap for the Blue Team, not an objective analysis / From Victor Sandor, Belmont, MA, US...
...Recommended reading My column this week looks at the continued leakage of blue collar support from the Democratic Party — America’s shipwrecked working class....
...Basketball aficionados argue until they are blue in the face about whether Michael Jordan or LeBron James is the GOAT (greatest of all time)....
...John Luther Adams: Arctic Dreams Cold Blue Music In the year of COP26, John Luther Adams is surely the composer of the moment....
...“[We need] a shift in power,” said Scott Roman, a 53-year-old podiatrist still wearing his blue scrubs. “Everyone’s got skeletons, so I’d rather have him as a Republican, versus a Democrat.”...
...Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement used blue jeans to signify solidarity in both the black and white working class....
...For over 40 years, John Luther Adams lived in the northernmost reaches of Alaska....
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
...An object I would never part with is a shovel from the groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in DC, in November 2006....
...David Bowie’s Young Americans is one of my all-time favourite albums; who else gets to have Luther Vandross as his backing singer?...
...“The walls of black people’s homes like mine were decorated with velvet glow-in-the-dark pieces; almost all had portraits of Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King and John F Kennedy,” he says, speaking over Zoom...
...Lilley, who curated the exhibition, says she drove into the park while listening to news from Ukraine and when she saw “LOVE (Red Blue Green)” “beaming across the valley, I cried my eyes out and I’m sure...
...At its height, from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, the style was adopted by major civil rights figures, including Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), athletes such as tennis champion...
...“The pandemic has illustrated that you can give people money, and America is still America, it has not become a socialist nation, the flag is still red, white and blue,” says Michael Tubbs, former mayor...
...Cranach’s “Luther” and Quentin Massys’ “Erasmus” set the scene; Dürer’s position is uncertain, but “St Jerome” is the essence of a portrait of humanist contemplation....
...I loved the live jazz supper club scene, which stretches from JoJo Restaurant and Bar, one of the vestiges of the U Street Corridor where Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday once played, to the Blues Alley...
...How about Nina Simone at the same event, slamming her piano keys to begin a smoking “Backlash Blues”? Still nothing? Blanks drawn?...
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