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New Children's Biographies of Malcolm X, Josephine Baker Out This Month
Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, has written Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $17.99, ages 6-10), a sentimental book about his early life...
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Tony Winner Audra McDonald Announces Broadway Return Alongside George C....
Audra McDonald will return to Broadway in 2016, in collaboration with George C. Wolfe and Savion Glover. (© David Gordon) Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway in spring...
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Harvard University Acquires Copy of Unfinished Play "The Welcome Table" by...
The Houghton Library at Harvard University has acquired a typed script of an unfinished James Baldwin play “The Welcome Table.” The manuscript is the 3,000 item acquired by the library archives since...
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Authors N.K Jemisin and Jacqueline Woodson Among 2020 MacArthur “Genius”...
[Top L to R: Monika Schleier-Smith, Ralph Lemon, N.K. Jemisin, Jacqueline Woodson; Bottom L to R: Fred Moten, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Thomas...
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MUSIC MONDAY: “A Song For You”– The Best of St. Louis Musical Artists (LISTEN)
by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) I have done a few playlists, so far devoted to specific cities. Chicago, New Orleans, and DC are among them. My...
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20th Century Global Superstar, Activist and Spy Josephine Baker’s Cheeky...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) We celebrate the iconic, internationally famous entertainer Josephine Baker in today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast with some history along with her humorously...
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