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Tag: Music

Bob Dylan

Time is like a jet plane: Bob Dylan turns 78

May 27, 2019 Christopher Burke Media, People, Uncategorized One comment

Shuffling through my iTunes library recently, I switched to searching Artist by alphabet mode to help me find a song whose name I couldn’t

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Montgomery

On hearing “The Darktown Strutters’ Ball” in Montgomery, Alabama

March 30, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Civil Rights, History, Racial issues Leave a comment

Visiting Montgomery, Alabama to see the civil rights sites, we walked over to the old train station along the riverfront. Inside what appears to

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concert

The Warmth of Other Suns plus “Lift Every Voice” concert: A powerful combination

February 21, 2017 Susan Cunningham Civil Rights Leave a comment

  My experience recently at the “Lift Every Voice” concert at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis was much different than it would have

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The devolution of feminism

January 15, 2014 Hafsa Human Rights, Ideas, Literature/Arts/Film, Uncategorized, Women 4 comments

It saddens me that feminism has come to be associated with elderly Cat Ladies condemning the oppressive institution of matrimony in their solitary existence,

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