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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 Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment, Bob Dylan, Human Interest
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Rick Ross apologizes for lyric 'interpreted as rape'
For the last week Rick Ross has been engulfed in a firestorm over recent lyrics that seemingly promote date rape. Although the track, "U.O.E.N.O." (a collaboration with Future and Atlanta emcee Rocko; warning: link contains profanity) has been out for...Tags: Twitter, Inc., New York City, Drugs and Medicines, Radio, Justice and Rights
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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: Jonylah Watkins, Teaching and Learning, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Murder, Shootings
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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: Minority Groups, Gordon Parks, Lower East Side, Baltimore County, Paul Robeson
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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: Teaching and Learning, Ellicott City, Schools, Colleges and Universities, Newspaper and Magazine
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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: Interior Policy, Southern Connecticut State University, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Shootings
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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: Teaching and Learning, Chicago Public Schools, Lil Wayne, Justice and Rights, Personal Service
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Epic to pull track with Lil Wayne's vulgar reference to Emmett Till
This post has been updated. See note below for details. Epic Records Chairman Antonio “L.A.” Reid has apologized to the family of slain civil rights figure Emmett Till and his label is working to remove from circulation a remix of the...
Tags: Beyonce, Lil Wayne, Justice and Rights, Entertainment, Emmylou Harris
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In FBI records, clues about a photographer's work as an informant
Ernest Withers watched the trajectory of the civil rights movement from behind his camera lens. He was in Mississippi in 1955 when an all-white jury acquitted two white men accused of brutally murdering Emmett Till, a visiting black Chicago teenager,...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Freedom of Information Act, Justice and Rights, Police Investigations, Newspaper and Magazine
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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: National Rifle Association of America, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Barack Obama
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Mar 20, 2013
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Feb 27, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
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Feb 8, 2013
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