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- RACE RELATIONS: Civil rights monument unveiled on Va. Capitol lawn (The Daily Times)
RICHMOND — For the first time Monday, statues of black children and civil rights leaders were placed alongside statues of some men who had worked to deny racial equality on the lawn of what was once the Confederate Capitol.
- Dragging Anchor (Washington Post)
The images are blurry and grainy, like a dream, dense with a meaning just beyond the mind's reach. The reels are out of order and I am not always sure what I am looking at as I search for answers in home movies taken 45 years ago. My father had transferred the films to videotape before he died. T...
- Brave cancer victim dies days before wedding - Edinburgh News
A YOUNG lung cancer sufferer who vowed to beat the disease to make it to her wedding day has died just days before she was due to be married. Laura Mackenzie, 24, of Dalmeny, South Queensferry, had been set to wed fiance Richard Hagger this weekend ...
- Mountain Blog (Nederland Mountain Ear)
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry saw her play, which she had written as a 28-year-old, produced on Broadway. When it opened, A Raisin in the Sun was the first accurate portrayal of a black family that most of the audience had ever seen.
- 5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day - Melodika.net
5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage DayMelodika.net, Bulgaria - 13 hours agoAlthough the creators of folk Spirituals are unknown, scholars suspect they were folk poets, Black preachers, and slave communities. ...
- Families battle over who owns 'Footprints' poem - Salt Lake Tribune
Families battle over who owns 'Footprints' poemSalt Lake Tribune, United States - 2 hours agoCarty, for her part, said Zangare is making assumptions about her income: ''I have not been paid any royalties by anyone who has promoted my poetry. ...
- LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES (Orlando Weekly)
Happy Belated Independence Day! I hope you managed to make it through the Fourth of July with your fingers and liver intact. I celebrated our nation’s birth with the traditional P’s: Patriotic music, Powerful explosions, charred animal Products … and Poetry.
- Sometimes I Wonder What I'm Gonna Do! - Boston IMC
That's what I told some characters on webook.com who couldn't fathom what coprophagia meant. I am sure those schools teach it if these Bushes get degrees from them. What do you teach? Suicide? Pesticides? Coprophagia? Better tell your E-Nazis to stop ...
- The Post salutes entertainment's best of 2005 (The Ohio University Post)
MOVIES "2046" (Wong Kar Wai) - This lush, long-awaited follow-up to 2000's "In the Mood for Love" is dark, melancholy and visually stunning.
- Ex-nurse quits job to become stand up - BirminghamMail.net
Ex-nurse quits job to become stand upBirminghamMail.net, UK - 4 hours ago“I had been writing poetry which I performed at some spoken word nights a couple of years ago and somebody suggested I gave stand-up a try. ...
- Gauging Gustav's Political Impact (Washington Post)
Republican Presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) with his wife, Cindy and his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, accompanied by Jimmy and Jack McCain, visit the Mississippi Emergency Management Operations Command Center in Jackson, Mississippi August...
- Culture at the Marxism 2008 festival - Socialistworker.co.uk
Culture at the Marxism 2008 festivalSocialistworker.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoJust some of the highlights include poetry performed by the hard‑hitting artist Lemn Sissay, Adrian Mitchell and John Hegley on Saturday evening. Love Music ...
- Talking Books hits the road with Spiral Jetta, Erin Hogan’s account ... - CBC News
The title says a lot: Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West (University of Chicago Press). What it doesn’t say is that when Erin Hogan, decided to go on her 3,000-mile solo car trip, she was daunted by the thought of ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (Grenfell Record)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- Unique kid biography brings Abraham Lincoln alive - Citizen
"LINCOLN SHOT," screams the headline! "Condition Considered Hopeless. Will Not Live Through the Night." So begins a gripping read for middle-graders ahead of the February bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a big event in publishing for grown ...
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