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...It’s a genre-defying experiment as strange, charming and shocking as Ours itself, and which provides the platform for what Williams describes in an Author’s Note as a “contemporary mythology” of Blackness...
...Henry ManceFT chief features writer Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is a fascinating depiction of Martin Luther King Jr — his brilliance, his flaws and his many shameless opponents....
...And that is a new biography of Martin Luther King that manages the extraordinary thing that its story, a life that has been so often told to retell it with a lot of verve....
...The effect is once strange and familiar, as if secretly we have always known our unstable, invisible, inner selves....
...There was a posy of iris, crocus and rosemary at my feet, and I thought about the strange junction between transience and mortality and how nature could be simultaneously fleeting and eternal....
...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....
...“When people talk about civil rights leaders, they think of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, but they don’t think of women....
...Mr Trump had suffered a double blow because he had first backed Luther Strange, a moderate Republican, in the primary race against Mr Moore....
...The de Menils gifted an edition of the work to the city of Houston in 1969, dedicating it to Martin Luther King Jr....
...Once you start this disdain for civilian government and reverence for the military, you go in a strange direction, like Pakistan....
...It was also a double whammy for Mr Trump, who had backed Luther Strange over Mr Moore in the Republican primary. “This is a tremendous setback for Donald Trump....
...Roy Moore, the firebrand evangelical judge, has won the Alabama Republican Senate primary, in a victory over Luther Strange who had received the backing of Donald Trump....
...Luther Strange started way back & ran a good race. Roy, WIN in Dec!” Mr Trump tweeted....
...Luther Strange would have won the general election for Alabama Senate in a walk. He sits in the Senate now, appointed to the seat vacated when Jeff Sessions became Donald Trump’s attorney-general....
...It is strange to think that something so novel at the time had so quickly become so emotionally important....
...” Strange, the mainstream Republican candidate who boasted the unlikely support of Donald Trump....
...Leading Republican lawmakers had been reluctant to endorse Mr Moore’s Senate candidacy earlier this year, with most in the Republican leadership supporting his primary opponent Luther Strange....
...He first made the anti-NFL comments at a rally in Alabama on Friday in support of Luther Strange, the sitting Republican senator....
...Republicans could also nominate Luther Strange, who is currently serving as the senator from Alabama but lost to Mr Moore in September’s Republican primary....
...Or, failing that, perhaps a man with nice things to say about women, such as Luther Strange — the man Mr Moore unseated....
...Mr Bannon’s star seemed in the ascendant when Roy Moore, his preferred candidate, trounced Luther Strange, the establishment favourite, in the Republican Senate primaries in Alabama....
...On one side of the Alabama primary is Luther Strange, the sitting senator, whom the Republican establishment convinced Mr Trump to endorse....
...His win over Luther Strange in the GOP Senate primary was also bigger than polls had suggested....
...The result was a double blow for Donald Trump — who endorsed Luther Strange in the GOP primary and then backed Mr Moore against Doug Jones over the wishes of his party — and Republicans worried about their...
...If the unexceptional Luther Strange had won the Republican nomination a few weeks back, he would probably have swept Tuesday’s Senate race....
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