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...Strife and combat are brought vividly to life: an invading horseman is “blasted into the air by shotgun, his back sailing over the stairs and landing hard onto the dirt and stone ground as the newborn hole...
...She spoke with men like Michael Stone, serving six life sentences for murder, and Johnny Adair, whose nickname was “Mad Dog” for a reason....
...These range from the spread of Martin Luther’s ideas in pamphlets that would usher in the Reformation through to the introduction of the newspaper in the 17th century....
...The best souvenirs I’ve brought home are stones. I love to travel light – I only ever take a carry-on – but I always bring back stones....
...These were men of fine combs and razor blades that could cut stone....
...At the bottom of a street lined with oleanders, the huge stone house where Baldwin hosted Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Maya Angelou had been redeveloped into a luxury apartment complex....
...“We recognise that a zealous commitment to ‘logic’ and ‘reason’ over all other forms of knowing is one of the foundational stones of White Supremacy Culture,” they wrote....
...The two singers combined sweetly on the encore, “All There Inside”, and then Sly Stone’s “I Want to Take You Higher” was cannily scripted into a house-shaking funky jam. ★★★★☆ efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk...
...But of course, I’ve also looked at Mick Jagger and the Stones as being rock style icons. So somewhere between Bowie and the Stones....
...Luther preached here, Mozart played the organ, Wagner was baptised in the font. The building talks across time. Perhaps there really is such a thing as acoustic memory and sermons in stones....
...Highlights include a gospel duet between Mavis Staples and Mahalia Jackson, Sly Stone show-stealing with a rasping, electric “Everyday People”....
...He remembers Martin Luther King Jr in his living room. His father, a physician, treated Malcolm X after his home in New York was firebombed....
...Protests are planned in Washington on Thursday night, when Mr Trump will formally accept his party’s nomination on the South Lawn of the White House, a stone’s throw from Black Lives Matter plaza, where...
...A city still scarred and blackened from the riots sparked by the death of Martin Luther King, the downtown was emptying of wealthier, whiter residents, neglected, almost war-torn....
...Then I heard the voices of boys shouting the N-word, making animal noises and throwing packed snowballs with stones in them....
...“You get to choose what stone you put in it,” he says. “This is just a cheap garnet. But that’s what my father had in his ring.”...
...The Martin of the title is the revered Martin Luther King. What would Martin do, Justyce wonders, but recalls: “Despite how good of a dude Martin was, they still killed him.”...
...Security was tight — Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy had recently been murdered in the US — yet surely young ladies were harmless?...
...Stones for the gospel, an iron with spikes in it for Luther’s wife, fish strung over the naked backs of the actors, a Hieronymus Bosch devil or two, angels, ladders, a child who looks like an old woman....
...Ailey rarity Masekela Langage takes place in a South African township dive, though if not for Hugh Masekela’s smoky, suave and anguished Afro-soul, we could be in Oakland or Chicago in the wake of Martin Luther...
...Outside the bedroom, stands a low white Chinese stone table....
...He is driven by a deep religious conviction and, invoking the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr, considers housing a civil rights issue....
...Back in 1967, Frank Rashid’s family lived a stone’s throw from the grocery they owned in the riot area — and they still live there today....
...These days, recording studios that were once the engine rooms of the Muscle Shoals sound — Fame on Avalon Avenue and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio at 3614 Jackson Highway (where the Rolling Stones famously...
...The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World, by Brad Stone, Bantam Press, RRP£20/Little, Brown, RRP£30 Stone, who won the 2013 FT/Goldman Sachs...
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