Paul Robeson

artknowledgenews.com: Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen 1924 Vanity Fair, February 1928 © Condé Nast Publications Inc. Courtesy George Eastman House

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosts Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008

artknowledgenews.com 4 hrs ago

Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Vanity Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008, the first major exhibition to...

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Choirs get together to sing Nye’s praises

icnetwork.co.uk 19 hrs ago

EBBW Vale and Tredegar Orpheus Male Choirs were delighted to be invited to the Senedd in Cardiff on July 16, to take part in celebrating 60 years of the NHS and to honour the contribution of Aneurin Bevan in its inception.

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Stamps honor early black films

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A mocha-skinned, marcelled beauty is bent over backward, pushing away from a tan lover with lacquered waves. Maybe she is fighting him off. Or maybe she is giving a second thought to this seduction. Whatever, the embrace is...

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CHRONICLEWATCH / Working for a Better Bay Area

outside.in yesterday

WHAT'S NOT WORKING: DAY 1 S.F. memorial vandalized: Four months ago, a memorial honoring the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the volunteer army that fought against fascists in the Spanish Civil War, opene...See more on...Where: Justin...

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Historian remains engaged and outraged at 94

theglobeandmail.com yesterday

Ben Swankey's eyebrows are bushy like tumbleweeds. Even at rest, wispy white hair flows from his head as though he were facing a stiff prairie wind.His big hands and thick fingers are the legacy of his farming and labouring...

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alternet.org

COINTELPRO Returns: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies

alternet.org Jul 21, 2008 3 related

Finally, at long last, I have something in common with Muhammad Ali. In classified reports compiled by the Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security, I am "Dave Z." This nickname was given by an undercover...

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Robeson Magic Returns

shrewsbury.gov.uk Jul 21, 2008

Acclaimed tenor Willard White returns to Shrewsbury on the 6th August by popular demand to recreate the magic of Paul Robeson. British folk song, Negro spirituals and classic early jazz songs make up a varied programme that...

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Festival serves up engaging, political films

greenleft.org.au Jul 20, 2008

REVIEW Festival serves up engaging, political films I was able to see a number of film’s at the annual Sydney film festival held in June. A highlight was Salute, which is a tribute to Peter Norman — the Australian athelete and...

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First- Class Act

washingtonpost.com Jul 20, 2008 1 related

A mocha-skinned, marcelled beauty is bent over backward, pushing away from a tan lover with lacquered waves. Maybe she is fighting him off. Or maybe she is giving a second thought to this seduction. Whatever, the embrace is...

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telegraph.co.uk

The Forsaken: Americans in Stalin's gulags

telegraph.co.uk Jul 20, 2008

Noel Malcolm reviews The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags by Tim Tzouliadis Russia in the late 1930s was not a good place to be. And you could also be arrested and killed for nothing at all, since the NKVD,...

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