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...This April, The Sympathizer becomes an HBO mini-series starring Robert Downey Jr....
...Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, who makes her debut as director of the highbrow Edinburgh International Festival, looks to Martin Luther King Jr for inspiration....
...JR: There are three things. The first of them, obviously, is it’s a recognition that [Weta founder and Lord of the Rings director] Peter Jackson was a genius, when you go back nearly 30 years ago....
...Gifted veteran Jackson Silva (Clifton Collins Jr) has had his share in a long career, one that seems to be winding down before two arrivals....
...But even before he moved from Texas to Detroit (“I was, like, 11 or 12 years old”), he had been steeped in gospel music: The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson....
...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....
...Jackson HouldingUmm, not very, but a bit. Leo HouldingWas it — were you scared at all? Jackson HouldingNo....
...The owner, Willy Bogner Jr, worked as a cameraman for a few of the Jimmy Bond movies, which is why Moore was often wearing their sportswear.” Sean Scully, painter “Picasso’s Child with a Dove....
...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....
...Highlights include a gospel duet between Mavis Staples and Mahalia Jackson, Sly Stone show-stealing with a rasping, electric “Everyday People”....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Today, central bankers are gathering for their big annual meeting that usually takes place in Jackson Hole....
...of populist Andrew Jackson....
...Hugs are shared between gentle charmer Otis (Clarke Peters), prosperous Eddie (Norm Lewis), practical-minded Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr) — and the raging, self-loathing Paul (Delroy Lindo)....
...Tony Jackson and Andrew Hill...
...“I started to think you can call this art if you want to,” he says, just “not in Jackson, Mississippi — you got to get to New York to call this art.”...
...(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....
...Sunday”, in March 1965, as he and around 600 protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to advocate for their voting rights and to express their anger at the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson...
...We asked Peter Jackson to help us, and he put the concert together and it’s incredible....
...When John D Rockefeller Jr discreetly began spending the inheritance from his billionaire father in the 1920s, his intentions seemed noble....
...“We are in a moment of a bit of a whirlwind,” said D’atra Jackson, BYP100’s national director, who lives in North Carolina....
...Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday is a national holiday in the US and yet naming a street after him has often been contentious....
...Her delicately cooked, immaculately presented food makes the average meal look like it was plated by Jackson Pollock....
...Mr Mercuriadis said 82 per cent of the income generated by Stax drummer Al Jackson Jr’s 1,850-song catalogue was derived from Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together”, while other well-known songs including Booker...
...She describes the works as “a comment on [Jackson] Pollock”, who had pioneered the drip painting approach in the 1940s....
...1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr...
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