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...the years and decades pass, she will come to question whether its protective orb is enough its protective orb is enough to protect the residents — from Aba, who wonders whether Saint “gone too far”, to Luther-Philip...
...The two songs by Bonds, both settings of Langston Hughes, were a welcome choice, never sounding second-best alongside the more celebrated Gershwin....
...We held up leaders like Mandela and Martin Luther King and Gandhi, not because they were rich, not because they were famous, but because of their passion to serve and the sacrifices they made to lift up...
...“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” proclaimed poet and activist Langston Hughes in 1926, adopting a prophet-like tone....
...She was the oldest child of Martin Luther King Sr, a Baptist preacher, and Alberta Williams, a teacher. King was born 16 months after Farris....
...Linton points to Red Pitch — Tyrell Williams’ joyous, award-winning play about three black south London teenagers, which recently packed out the Bush — as exactly the sort of work she prizes....
...“Harlem might not be as overtly artsy or edgy as parts of Brooklyn,” observes longtime resident Karl Franz Williams, owner of the 67 Orange Street cocktail bar on Frederick Douglass Blvd....
...US markets were closed on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr holiday....
...He identifies himself with all kinds of very different historical figures: Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Mandela, Martin Luther King. He has a vision of himself that is a messianic one....
...Almost all these works belong to the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation, whose collection of 160 artists was begun by William Arnett in the 1970s....
...This was a joyous, poignant writing debut from Williams about three black British teenagers at a pinch-point in their lives....
...Langston Hughes’s poem runs like a bluesy refrain through Lynette Linton’s wonderful, bittersweet staging of Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky....
...In this case it’s 1968 and the launch of a series of late-night television debates between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr....
...William Felton Russell was born on February 12 1934 in Monroe, Louisiana, where his father worked in a paper bag factory before moving the family to Oakland, California, when his son was 9....
...Martin Luther King Day Bond and equity markets will be closed in the US for a public holiday. What else we’re reading Has Sony become the entertainment group it always wanted to be?...
...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
...In the political uproar and shaking certainties, the US television network ABC tries to boost poor ratings with a series of late-night debates between arch-conservative William F Buckley Jr and maverick...
...He stood at the front door and Langston opened it, and he was expecting to see this big photo book — two feet by one foot — and Langston put his hand in the back pocket of his pants and pulled out this little...
...It features everything from Renaissance madrigals and a John Luther Adams world premiere to folk singers and the London African Gospel Choir, with baritone Roderick Williams and Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis...
...This means that when news arrives of Martin Luther King’s assassination, the attention stays largely on Dean who realises he can turn matters to his advantage....
...It’s possible to trace their stylistic influence among some of today’s best-dressed and most influential artists — for example Pharrell Williams, André 3000 and Tyler, the Creator....
...Following the thread of pictures, from the funeral of civil rights leader Martin Luther King to representations of the Ku Klux Klan, is a gruelling, chastening experience....
...In the refurbishment of the Oval Office, Mr Biden has chosen likenesses of Robert F Kennedy, US civil rights activists Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and union leader César Chávez....
...The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, by Peniel E Joseph, Basic Books, RRP$30/£25, 384 pages In the year of Black Lives Matter, this comparative biography...
...William persuaded Jack to sell his half of the site. The twin hotels became a ballroom for the city....
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