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...Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, who makes her debut as director of the highbrow Edinburgh International Festival, looks to Martin Luther King Jr for inspiration....
...Off the court, he was a civil-rights leader who marched on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr. and had an interminable competitive spirit and humour to boot....
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
...So to the context in full — the killings of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, Vietnam, the New York trial of the “Panther 21”. On the weekend Stevie Wonder played, Apollo 11 landed on the moon....
...The reissue campaign includes a remix of their 1981 song “Can You Feel It” with sampled speeches by Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama....
...(The subject of the fourth series will be Martin Luther King Jr.) Franklin had been in touch with Parks during her final years. “She wanted me to write a stage musical of her life....
...Samuel L Jackson may be the headliner, a perfect mix of glamour and gravitas, but Wimberley, strapping on his oxygen tanks, is a humbly heroic figure....
...of populist Andrew Jackson....
...Velour cites a number of her peers for their political work — Bob The Drag Queen, in a skintight fishtail lemon dress, mashing up Les Misérables and Martin Luther King Jr, and Panti Bliss, Marti Gould Cummings...
...(FT) March in Washington Rev Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders will mark the 57th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday....
...As Martin Luther King Jr said: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”...
...At the same gathering, the March on Washington, more than half a century ago, Martin Luther King Jr, who was little more than a decade older and became the emblem of America’s postwar battles against racial...
...Al Sharpton, the civil rights leader, said a national march on Washington was planned for August 28, the anniversary of the 1963 march where Martin Luther King Jr gave his “I Have a Dream” speech....
...Martin Luther King Jr called that act “a second emancipation”. But it had been achieved only at a price....
...Mr Booker, who is fond of citing scripture and quoting Martin Luther King Jr and poet Langston Hughes, has long been viewed as a rising star in the Democratic party....
...Propelled by the Watts riots and Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination in 1968, these artists rummaged among the ruins for scraps to hammer into radical monuments: old shoes, crushed umbrellas, broken bits...
...Actors relish it, and Hall has drawn stars such as Samuel L Jackson, Angela Bassett and David Harewood to the stage....
...On Friday Mr Trump signed a proclamation honouring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, before walking away from shouted questions from reporters about his comments....
...Samuel L. Jackson’s voice gives his words sound and volume, the vivacity of his prose gives him freshness and relevance....
...For men it can be more positive: a symbol of virility (Kelly Slater, Michael Jordan, Samuel L Jackson) or power (Vladimir Putin, Lex Luther, Lord Voldemort)....
...Instead Baldwin’s words are left unchanged, with narrator Samuel L. Jackson giving voice to them....
...Kornegay, Jr. Senior vice-president, supply management, Hilton Worldwide 11. Ken Olisa Chairman, Restoration Partners 12....
...I tried to do what James Brown did in 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated....
...Thanks to Roger Pielke Jr for bringing this to our attention....
...A fortnight or so later, Marion Barry holds his signature event of the year, his “State of the Ward” address, at a high-ceilinged modern church on Martin Luther King Jr Avenue in Anacostia....
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