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Pulitzer finalist Wadada Leo Smith symbolizes Chicago jazz power
Ever since the late 1990s, the forces behind the Pulitzer Prize in music have tried to push the award outside the narrow precincts of classical composition. On Monday, the Pulitzers made the next dramatic step in that evolution, with jazz musician...
Tags: Entertainment, Carnegie Hall, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Journalism
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Cool Classics! hits close to home with schoolchildren
Mara Tapp was driving through the North Kenwood neighborhood on Jan. 29 when she saw a swarm of police cars. She knew something was wrong but continued to the after-school class she teaches at nearby Reavis Elementary. She would later learn that the...
Tags: Shootings, University of Chicago, Students, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Murder
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Forgetting Black History
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelWith Black History Month moving into full swing, photos of the same five black activists are plastered on the news, posters and flyers. The same line from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream speech” is repeated over and over... -
Using images to change history
The civil rights movement was full of dynamic and evocative images. Today, even many of us born after its iconic moments were captured on film can describe Martin Luther King Jr.'s outstretched arm pointing a sea of people toward a future decades beyond...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, Justice and Rights, Lower East Side, Gordon Parks
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HoCoPoLitSo's writer-in-residence Derrick Weston Brown seeks to inspire the poet within us all
“Attention, attention … the mic is now open.” It is only fitting that Derrick Weston Brown begins his presentation at local high schools with an original poem beckoning “all poets and lovers of the word.” “Poetry...
Tags: Board of Directors, Howard University, Students, Ellicott City, Teachers
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Getting Control Of Guns For All Americans
The Hartford Courant"If The Civil Rights era has to be mentioned at all in the current gun debate, it's that the U.S. would be safer if blacks had stayed at the back of the bus — without access to firearms." — Email from reader taking issue with citing Emmett...Tags: Shootings, Personal Weapon Control, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Politics, Gun Control
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A year later, Trayvon Martin case murkier than ever
Change of SubjectFriday's print column The simple story — cops yawn when burly white vigilante stalks and kills unarmed African-American child for the "crime" of walking while black — shocked the conscience of much of the nation a year ago and touched...... -
History is for the young
National science fairs, spelling bees and spoken word contests seem to get their share of attention. But over the next few days, schools in the Chicago area will host a less-heralded competition — their history fairs, with students hoping to win and...
Tags: Entertainment, Students, Justice and Rights, Asia, Teaching and Learning
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Fotos de Sandy Hook cambiarían el debate
“La cara mutilada de la víctima se dejó intacta por los empleados de la funeraria a petición de la madre. Ella dijo que quería que “todo el mundo” presenciara la atrocidad.” La Revista Jet, 15 de septiembre de 1955, acerca del...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), National Rifle Association of America, Barack Obama, Southern Connecticut State University
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Friday night sees return of folk musician
Staff reports@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Ben Bedford, a nationally recognized folk musician, will...Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Folk (genre), Music, Christian Rock (genre)
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Hero's blood spilled in Vietnam still heals today
Chinta Strausberg was visiting a relative's South Side business in January 1993 when — out of the blue — an elderly uncle telephoned her at the automotive parts shop. "First I was surprised that he knew I was there, but he kept saying,...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes, Ku Klux Klan, Awards and Prizes, White House
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'American Night' at Yale Rep Offers Revisionist Historical Hilarity
American Night — The Ballad of Juan José Through October 13 at the Yale University Theater, 222 York St., New Haven. Presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre, (203) 432-1234, yalerep.org. American Night is a nightmare that turns into a hopeful...
Tags: Entertainment, Abraham Lincoln, Yale Repertory Theatre, Richard Montoya, Herbert Siguenza
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