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...In 1980, Kerry James Marshall painted a carbon-black silhouette of a face, only the whites of the eyes and gleaming teeth visible....
...During its heyday, Baldwin’s Saint-Paul home was a sanctuary for artists — especially black Americans in the twilight of their lives, from Miles Davis to Josephine Baker....
...What was the collective nickname for the group of showbiz friends in the 1950s and 60s, who included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Frank Sinatra?...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...We heard from David Davis. He’s the former Brexit secretary who also backed the agreement....
...Sal Davis (Salim Abdallah Salim until he renamed himself in tribute to Sammy Davis Jr) hymns the then new leader of Oman on “Sultan Qaboos Song”, a choir chanting the Sultan’s name as a set of high responses...
...Mr Vance could also pass his findings to the New York state attorney-general, Letitia James....
...Boseman made his feature film debut with a small part in the 2008 sports biopic The Express, a drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first Black player to win the Heisman trophy...
...Only in recent years has Kwame Jr begun working with his father to digitally archive his old photographs and bring them to a wider public....
...Law firm Davis Polk has elected eight new partners. Read about it here....
...Former Xstrata head Mick Davis appears to be out of the running for the chairmanship of mining group Rio Tinto after an investor backlash....
...The owner of Carl’s Jr fast-food restaurants had drawn fire for his treatment of workers and his opposition to the minimum wage, as well as allegations of abuse in his personal life....
...In 1970, Vic Dana, a protégé of Sammy Davis Jr, took a middle-of-the-road cover to No 72 in the US, sounding like an anaemic Roy Orbison....
...Jefferson, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times, includes sharp descriptions of postwar black American performers such as Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr, who prized...
...The visuals were introduced because she wanted to write about the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr, a black man who three white men dragged behind a truck in Texas until his extremities separated from his body...
...Kornegay, Jr. Senior vice-president, supply management, Hilton Worldwide 11. Ken Olisa Chairman, Restoration Partners 12....
...The timespan covers the singer’s Rat Pack heyday, joshing about with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr, and his undignified role as President John F Kennedy’s friend-stroke-procurer....
...The Hippodrome was once home to a circus theatre, then the Talk of the Town variety show which packed audiences in to watch stars such as Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr and Tom Jones....
...Male On the line that led from Cab Calloway jitterbugging and Sammy Davis Jr flashdancing to Michael Jackson moonwalking on MTV, surely there is no choice but Jackson, for blurring all sorts of lines, and...
...A postcard from Anita Brookner leaning against Judy Garland’s actual 1950s white leather address book, open on the page with Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr and Doris Day side by side?...
...This was New York’s smallpox hospital, designed by James Renwick Jr (architect of St Patrick’s Cathedral), a memory of a time when the islands around New York were places of exile....
...A decade later, Blake painted a picture of a girl fondly clutching a portrait of another demi-god, the Rat Pack singer Sammy Davis Jr....
...Lawson, Co-founder, US-Russia Business Council James P....
...James Crabtree is the FT’s comment editor...
...Jo then moved to Laurel after Arthur died of cancer in 1972 and got remarried, to a man called James Brantley....
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