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Ms. Magazine hosts author Dorothy Roberts on Thursday
Jacket CopyAuthor and professor Dorothy Roberts will discuss her book "Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-Create Race in the 21st Century" in Los Angeles Thursday.... -
Book Review: 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention' by Manning Marable
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMalcolm X A Life of Reinvention Manning Marable Viking: 594 pp., $30 Malcolm X never died. While his contemporary Martin Luther King Jr. lives on in the noble but fixed ideal of a racially unified and enlightened America, Malcolm lives on in the fluid...Tags: Columbia University, Human Interest, Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, Human Rights
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Tim Rutten: 'Geronimo' Pratt and Johnnie Cochran
Los Angeles is a city that lives in the present and looks to the future. Time passes here in a blur, and there's usually little appetite for weaving together the strands of memory into the stories we call history — and few hungry to hear them when...Tags: Church and State Relations, Eldridge Cleaver, Crimes, Judges, Justice System
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'Eastbound and Down' recap: Kenny Powers jumps on the love roller coaster
Show TrackerHe moved to Mexico but barely spoke Spanish. He lived in America almost all of his life but barely spoke English. But no matter where Kenny (you know what word belongs here) Powers may go, he always speaks the international...... -
Photo essay: Obamafication
Opinion L.A.Frank Tires #1, Detroit, 2009 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, 2010 In inner-city murals, Barack Obama almost always wears a tie. He smiles a lot, or else he has the up-tilted face and earnest demeanor of the famous âHopeâ campaign poster, a...... -
Malcolm X biographer Manning Marable has died
Jacket CopyManning Marable, the author of a significant new biography of Malcolm X, has died three days before its publication.... -
'X-Men: First Class': January Jones goes from 'Mad' to mutant
Brand XCOVER STORY: When January Jones was initially cast as mutant telepath Emma Frost in âX-Men: First Class,â she was eager to for the chance to break out of the retro 1960s world of Betty Draper, her character on âMad Men.â Imagine the... -
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.: Murals that conjure the great man, the enduring dream [Photo essay]
Opinion L.A.Avalon Auto Repair, E. Colden Ave. at S. Avalon Bl, Los Angeles, 2005 Painted on the side wall of the neighborhood auto shop or the corner mom-and-pop store, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s image proclaims his place in the...... -
Manning Marable dies at 60; historian and author of forthcoming Malcolm X biography
Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming biography of Malcolm X could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, has died only days before the book described as his life's work was to be published. He was 60.
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Book reviews: 'Preaching With Sacred Fire' and 'The Anthology of Rap'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesPreaching With Sacred Fire An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present Edited by Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas W.W. Norton: 976 pp., $45 The Anthology of Rap Edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois Yale University Press:...Tags: Grandmaster Flash, CNN (tv network), Entertainment, Music, Jesse Jackson
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PASSINGS: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Walt Dropo, Eugene V. Wolfenstein
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Italian economist, architect of euro
Italian economist Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70, one of the intellectual architects of the euro and a member of the European Central Bank's first executive board, died Saturday night after...Tags: Silvio Berlusconi, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Football, Romano Prodi, Science
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'The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama' by David Remnick
On Oct. 9, 2009, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs woke up at dawn and received startling news from Oslo. President Obama, only 48, had just received the Nobel Peace Prize. Usually, this most prestigious of awards honors lifetime accomplishment...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Republican Party, Literature, Barack Obama, Cheshire
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