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    May 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Bob Dylan, others

    WASHINGTON — President Obama pinned the Presidential Medal of Freedom around Bob Dylan's neck as the singer stood in the White House inscrutable in black sunglasses.
    WASHINGTON — President Obama pinned the Presidential Medal of Freedom around Bob Dylan's neck as the singer stood in the White House inscrutable in black sunglasses. "I have to say that I am a really big fan," Obama said as he introduced Dylan, one...

    Tags: John Paul Stevens, Career and Workplace, U.S. Department of Justice, Shimon Peres, Awards and Prizes

  2. May 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Bob Dylan, Madeleine Albright among Medal of Freedom honorees

    WASHINGTON -- Folk singer Bob Dylan and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday afternoon.
    WASHINGTON -- Folk singer Bob Dylan and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday afternoon. A number of figures from the struggles and shifts of the 1960s were...

    Tags: John Paul Stevens, Shimon Peres, Awards and Prizes, Bob Dylan, Civil Rights

  4. May 25, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. Feminist to her feet: Shoe shopping with Dolores Huerta

    Dolores Huerta is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers and an committed feminist who now heads her own <a href=&quot;http://www.doloreshuerta.org/">foundation</a>.
    Dolores Huerta is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers and an committed feminist who now heads her own foundation. For her, even a shoe-shopping expedition can be laden with socio-politics. For Mother’s Day, her son said he was buying her new...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Dylan

  6. May 23, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times
  7. Activist Dolores Huerta: 50 years of fighting for human rights

    Dolores Huerta runs on righteous ferocity the way cars run on gasoline. The woman who co-founded the United Farm Workers union 50 years ago with Cesar Chavez has harried, prodded, hectored, rallied and protested. She's been arrested more than a score of times, and once, picketing in San Francisco, she was beaten so badly by a police officer that her spleen was ruptured. You'd be hard-pressed to tell, the way she bounces around the Central Valley, a woman on many missions. So, can she stand still next week in Washington long enough for President Obama to present her with the Medal of Freedom, along with honorees such as Toni Morrison, John Glenn and Bob Dylan? <em>S&iacute;, se puede</em>.
    Dolores Huerta runs on righteous ferocity the way cars run on gasoline. The woman who co-founded the United Farm Workers union 50 years ago with Cesar Chavez has harried, prodded, hectored, rallied and protested. She's been arrested more than a score of...

    Tags: Companies and Corporations, Racism, Immigration, Employment, Civil Rights

  8. May 21, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  9. Tuesday's Talk Shows: Paula Deen; Billy Bob Thornton; Josh Brolin

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  10. May 15, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  11. Wednesday's Talk Shows: Eli Manning; Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger

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    Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 13 - 19 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 13 - 19 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies CBS This......
  12. May 7, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  13. Today's Talk Shows

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    Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 6 - 12 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 6 - 12 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies CBS This......
  14. May 4, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  15. On Sunday: Lyndon Johnson, Toni Morrison and the history of cookbooks

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    A look at book coverage coming up in this Sunday's L.A. Times....
  16. May 1, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. Peter Sellars, Dmitri Hvorostovsky among Opera News Awards winners

    Saying that he &quot;took the starch out of the Bugs Bunny version of opera," director Peter Sellars was honored at the Opera News Awards on Sunday.
    Saying that he "took the starch out of the Bugs Bunny version of opera," director Peter Sellars was honored at the Opera News Awards on Sunday. The Pittsburgh-born Sellars accepted the award at the Plaza in Manhattan, sounding appropriately like an...

    Tags: Opera (genre), People (magazine)

  18. May 6, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  19. Review: 'Home' by Toni Morrison feels distant

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    Home A Novel Toni Morrison Alfred A. Knopf: 148 pp., $24 I've long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much. Of her nine novels, three — "Song of Solomon" (1977), "Beloved" (1987) and 2008's "A Mercy" —...

    Tags: Korean War (1950-1953)

  20. Apr 26, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Bob Dylan, Pat Summitt among 2012 Medal of Freedom recipients

    WASHINGTON -- The White House has announced this year&rsquo;s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation&rsquo;s highest civilian honor. The list of 13 honorees includes musician Bob Dylan, writer Toni Morrison, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Shimon Peres.
    WASHINGTON -- The White House has announced this year’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The list of 13 honorees includes musician Bob Dylan, writer Toni Morrison, former Secretary of...

    Tags: Gerald Ford, Ceremonies, John Wooden, Shimon Peres, Pulitzer Prize Awards

  22. Mar 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  23. This Sunday: John Leonard, AIDS and Carl Hiaasen, too

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    John Leonard's collected essays, a book on genesis of the AIDS pandemic and another YA book by Carl Hiassen are all part of our Sunday coverage....
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US President Barack Obama congratulates author Toni Mor...
(May 29, 2012)
US President Barack Obama congratulates author Toni Morrison after presenting her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom to during a ceremony on May 29, 2012 in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
One of our nation's most celebrated novelists, Morrison...
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A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man...
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'Home,' Toni Morrison (out May 8)