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Street styles a way of life in Sin City
Special to The TimesSay what you want about street fashion — it's too bright, too busy, too baggy — but just don't call it a fad. Even in a city like Las Vegas, which dynamites its history with a peculiar glee, those clothiers and cobblers on the cutting edge of...Tags: U.S. Military, Nike, Inc., Wesley Snipes, Polo, Kanye West
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'The Bones of Lesser Men' by Yves Lola St. Vil at Met Theatre
In the most complimentary sense, Yves Lola St. Vil's "The Bones of Lesser Men" at the Met Theatre is an ensemble piece that follows in the stylistic footsteps of the late August Wilson.
Set in a diner that serves as the heart and soul for an impoverished...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Literature, Gays and Lesbians, Martin Luther King Jr., Arts and Culture
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Schooled on black history
Black History Month was established in 1976, as an evolution of Negro History Week (founded half a century earlier by Carter G. Woodson), and has since become a staple of the nation's elementary school classrooms and textbooks. Times editorials, on the...Tags: Education, Justice and Rights, Entertainment, McDonald's, African-American History Month
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"The Sky Below: A Novel" by Stacey D'Erasmo
The Sky Below
A Novel
Stacey D'Erasmo
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 288 pp., $24
Gabriel, the chimerical narrator of "The Sky Below," Stacey D'Erasmo's episodic novel of mayhem and myth, was not the sort of boy his "sad brown bear of a father" could bond...Tags: Assault, Folklore and Mythology, Drug Trafficking, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice
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Springfield's secret
Our memory of the unpleasant chapters in our nation's history is usually shorter than we imagine, especially where race is concerned. Few Americans could even tell you "who" Jim Crow was. Only mostly older Americans remember the racial history of the Deep...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, Business, William Faulkner, History
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28 days in the integration nation
For the white male power structure that sabotaged the Susan B. Anthony dollar, kept Chief Jay Strongbow out of the highest echelons of professional wrestling and posited a "White Christmas" as the last word in holiday cheer, it must have seemed like a...Tags: Football, Joe Biden, U.S. Senate, City Capital Corporation, African-American History Month
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Race, post race
More than half a century ago, Langston Hughes captured the debilitating divide in the destinies of white and black children in his poem "Children's Rhymes": "By what sends / the white kids / I ain't sent: / I know I can't / be PresidentBy what sends / the...Tags: Bill Cosby, Justice and Rights, Racism, Barack Obama, Booker T. Washington
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Hollywood Bio Hazards
From Moses to Malcolm X, Virginia Woolf to Loretta Lynn, historic figures have been showing up on the big screen since the early days of silent film. This year, by nominating six biographical pictures for Oscars — including three for best picture &#...Tags: Kate Winslet, Biography (genre), Entertainment, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Loretta Lynn
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American Taliban Took Odd Route
Times Staff WritersEven here in the heart of famously tolerant Marin County, John Walker cut an atypical path. He attended an alternative high school. He converted to Islam at 16 after reading "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." He raised eyebrows among neighbors by...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Lawyers, Madrasas, CNN (tv network)
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Made-for-TV Atonement
Times Staff WriterStanley "TOOKIE" WILLIAMS, a legend in street-gang and law-enforcement circles for three decades, is about to join the long parade of little-known souls turned into TV-movie celebrities. This figures to cause plenty of consternation in family rooms...Tags: Teen-agers, Riots, Human Rights, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Murder
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A Second Renaissance in Harlem
Special To The TimesNoisy, diesel-belching tour buses routinely roll uptown headed for the heart of Harlem. Some residents call them "drive-bys." "The bus comes by. Cameras go off. Then they're gone," said Anthony Bowman, co-owner of the Harlem Gift Shop. "There's no...Tags: Bill Clinton, Starbucks Corp., Stanford White, Magic Johnson, Personal Service
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Who are pop's hottest properties?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWho's the hottest property in the record business? That's not an easy question, but with conglomerates betting zillions of dollars on it, Calendar set out to conduct some independent research. The first thing we did was to declare everyone--from Michael...Tags: Bill Clinton, Mary J. Blige, Janet Jackson, Michael Bolton, Kurt Cobain
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