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'Sweet Thunder' by Wil Haygood
When I was a young boxing writer, I once was invited to watch historic fight films with a small group that included Sugar Ray Robinson, by then long retired from the ring.
Suffice to say, I was -- by several orders of magnitude -- the most ignorant...Tags: Jesse Owens, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., The Washington Post, Alzheimer's Disease, Career and Workplace
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Obama: Hurricane Katrina's lessons
The Swampby Mark Silva Four years after Hurricane Katrina, President Barack Obama says that 11 members of his Cabinet have gone to New Orleans and he plans his own journey later this year. "To complete a complex recovery that addresses nearly......Tags: Politics, Local Government, FEMA, Fires, Emergency Incidents
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Drug Dealers Offered Second Chances
Staff reporterAfter years of crackdowns and undercover operations, the Seattle Police Department announced a new way to handle the city's stubborn drug problem. They're calling it a Drug Market Initiative. Over the last year, police collected data about 18 low-level...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, John Jay, Drug Trafficking, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice
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3 days in Iowa, for gays and progressives alike
Tribune reporterDES MOINES -- During the weekly Sunday afternoon drag show at The Garden, one of this state's handful of gay clubs, a crisis emerged. As audience members nursed their beers in the dim room, the performer scheduled to next step forward and twist and...Tags: University of Iowa, Iowa, Des Moines (Polk, Iowa), Judges, Politics
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Paris' Quai Branly Museum celebrates 'Jazz Century'
Bump Picasso.
Forget Rococo.
The Quai Branly Museum, a steel-and-glass palace on the Seine River, has news for the culture world: "Three Little Bops" is art.
The Looney Tunes cartoon from 1957 retells the Three Little Pigs as a jazz fable with music by...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Arts, Elvis Presley
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Get Lit Players bring poetry's emotions to other L.A. teenagers
For as long as he can remember, Dario Serrano's life was all screeching tires and echoing gunshots, babies' cries and barking dogs, a symphony, as he puts it, of "hood rats and gangsters," of "vatos vatos and payasos" -- dudes and numskulls, loosely...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Gang Activity, Neil Simon, Los Angeles, Crimes
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'The Lincoln Anthology' edited by Harold Holzer, 'The Best American History Essays on Lincoln' edited by Sean Wilentz, Ronald C. White's biography 'A. Lincoln' and others
It was Tuesday, May 30, 1922, the day of the dedication of the solemn and splendid memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, and the ceremony on the Mall featured speeches by President Warren Harding and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
The most...Tags: Lincoln (Placer, California), Jacques Barzun, Karl Marx, Henrik Ibsen, Civil Rights
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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: Civil Rights, Malcolm X, Georgetown University, Martin Luther King Jr., Elections
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"Palace Council,' by Stephen L. Carter
Chicago Tribune NewspapersIt's no surprise that in "Palace Council," the third of Stephen L. Carter's fables about black America's upper crust, success depends not on what you know but whom. With the right connections—along with the right bloodlines and education—a...Tags: Los Angeles Times, FBI, Judges, Joseph P. Kennedy, Crime, Law and Justice
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Paul Beatty's latest follows a disc jockey to Berlin
Chicago Tribune NewspapersI first heard of Paul Beatty in the 1990s, when Europe was awash in young black rebels trying to forge a new identity against the backdrop of insidious racism. We wanted to be black and proud, as the song went, but we wanted none of the nationalist...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Radio Industry, Music Theater, Los Angeles, Sex
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'Slumberland' by Paul Beatty
Slumberland
A Novel
Paul Beatty
Bloomsbury: 244 pp., $24.99
I first heard of Paul Beatty in the 1990s, when Europe was awash in young black rebels trying to forge a new identity against the backdrop of insidious racism. We wanted to be black and...Tags: Radio Industry, Music Theater, Civil Rights, University of California, Los Angeles
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South's Communist ties explored
The Boston GlobeHistorian Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore grew up in Greensboro, N.C., in the 1950s and remembers an abandoned mansion in her neighborhood where, neighbors whispered, "the Communist had lived." And remembers also seeing, on summer drives to the Carolina shore,...Tags: Communist Party of China, Politics, Social Issues, Parties and Movements, Colleges and Universities
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