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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: Radio, Entertainment, American Civil War (1861-1865), Music Industry, Radio Industry
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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: Lyndon B. Johnson, Awards and Prizes, Vietnam War (1955-1975), White House, Ku Klux Klan
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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, Neil Diamond, Herbert Siguenza, Yale Repertory Theatre, Abraham Lincoln
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Trice: Chicago had its own black renaissance
In 1997, Darlene Clark Hine came across an essay in which Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps argued that black Chicago had its own, little-known renaissance that began in the 1930s and rivaled the famous one that occurred in 1920s New York. "I...
Tags: Sears Holdings Corp., Katherine Dunham, Book, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture
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Lewis Museum's 'Growing Up Afro' takes viewers from paper routes to picket lines
Beulah Hinson beams as she holds up a copy of the Afro-American newspaper, the young girl's expression a sharp contrast to the headlines from this particular edition — "205 Die in Dance Hall Fire," "Hubby Made Store Love Nest." The message behind...
Tags: Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Arts and Culture, NAACP, Kweisi Mfume, Museums
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'Family' connections: How Phylicia Rashad found Stovall and his play set in Hyde Park
When Phylicia Rashad was cast as a replacement Violet Weston in Anna D. Shapiro's Broadway production of Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," the Broadway gossip boards were abuzz with the notion of casting an African-American actress, best known for...
Tags: Theater, Cynda Williams, Entertainment Events, Celebrities, John Cameron Mitchell
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Trice: Obama-inspired quilt exhibit had troubled past
![When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44," in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to museums in cities around the country.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67241505-08190944-187105.jpg "When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44,\" in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to museums in cities around the country.")
When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44," in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to...Tags: Minority Groups, Arts and Culture, Uptown, Human Interest, Museums
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Local reverend defends Obama on same-sex marriage
Tribune reporterThe leader of President Barack Obama’s former church in Chicago has come out against statements by other African-American clergy who condemned the president’s endorsement last week of same-sex marriage. The Rev. Otis Moss III, the senior...Tags: Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, Gays and Lesbians, Trinity United Church of Christ
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Question still needs to be asked
There was always something hapless about Rodney King. He entered the nation's consciousness - and its conscience - as a shambling drunk, an unemployed black construction worker who tried to outrun L.A. police rather than be arrested for drunk driving....Tags: Entertainment Events, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Crime, Law and Justice, PCP, American Red Cross
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Trayvon Martin case strikes deep chord with Baltimoreans
When 17-year-old John Edwards was shot in the head on Edmondson Avenue this month, no one marched on City Hall.
There were no comparisons to Emmett Till, no columns in national newspapers about the anxieties of growing up black and male in a country...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Crime, Law and Justice, Pneumonia, Government
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Baltimore showing solidarity with slain Fla. teen
Today marks one month since Trayvon Martin's death, and thousands of people are expected to descend on the small Florida city where the youth was slain by a neighborhood watch volunteer, including an NFL star and a prominent church leader from Baltimore....Tags: Anglicanism, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Health, Crime, Law and Justice
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Trayvon Martin case: Florida's license to kill
Nearly a month after an unarmed black teenager was shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain, police in Sanford, Fla., have yet to make an arrest. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was returning from a convenience store near the house of his father'...Tags: Shootings, Minority Groups, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminal Laws, Judges
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