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Photo essay: Obamafication
Opinion L.A.Frank Tires #1, Detroit, 2009 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, 2010 In inner-city murals, Barack Obama almost always wears a tie. He smiles a lot, or else he has the up-tilted face and earnest demeanor of the famous “Hope” campaign poster, a...... -
Del Valle proposal: Three years at city college, final year at public university
Clout StPosted by Kristen Mack at 2:40 p.m. Mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle today proposed a pilot program that would allow students in high-demand majors to complete three years of classes at a city college and finish their final year at...... -
HBO's 'Thurgood' - exceptional look at race, law, life
Z on TVAmerican television is generally awful when it comes to talking about race.Afraid of possibly offending anyone and absolutely terrified of tackling complex subject matter, most networks and major cable channels have come to largely avoid the topic in... -
Theater review: ‘Click, Clack, Moo’ from Orlando Repertory Theatre
Orlando Theater BlogFarmer Brown has a problem. All day long he hears the sound of “click, clack, moo” as his cows pound out missives on their battered typewriter instead of producing milk. Adults would call the situation a serious labor dispute. But the audience... -
Malcolm X biographer Manning Marable has died
Jacket CopyManning Marable, the author of a significant new biography of Malcolm X, has died three days before its publication.... -
Angela Bassett keeping it real
About Last NightAngela Bassett promoting her new film "Jumping the Broom" at a downtown Chicago hotel on April 12, 2011. (E. Jason Wambsgans/ Chicago Tribune) Angela Bassett has portrayed several real-life figures during her 20-plus year career in film and television --... -
National Film Registry adds ‘Empire Strikes Back,’ ‘Malcolm X’ and ‘Airplane’
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe anual list of films deemed important/representative enough to merit inclusion in the National Film Registry includes Leslie Nielsen's breakout movie, ‘Airplane,' Spike Lee's finest (“Malcolm X”), “All the President's Men”... -
'X-Men: First Class': January Jones goes from 'Mad' to mutant
Brand XCOVER STORY: When January Jones was initially cast as mutant telepath Emma Frost in “X-Men: First Class,” she was eager to for the chance to break out of the retro 1960s world of Betty Draper, her character on “Mad Men.” Imagine the... -
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.: Murals that conjure the great man, the enduring dream [Photo essay]
Opinion L.A.Avalon Auto Repair, E. Colden Ave. at S. Avalon Bl, Los Angeles, 2005 Painted on the side wall of the neighborhood auto shop or the corner mom-and-pop store, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s image proclaims his place in the...... -
Manning Marable dies at 60; historian and author of forthcoming Malcolm X biography
Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming biography of Malcolm X could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, has died only days before the book described as his life's work was to be published. He was 60.
----------------...Tags: Minority Groups, Health, Social Issues, Columbia University, Justice and Rights
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Book reviews: 'Preaching With Sacred Fire' and 'The Anthology of Rap'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesPreaching With Sacred Fire An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present Edited by Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas W.W. Norton: 976 pp., $45 The Anthology of Rap Edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois Yale University Press:...Tags: Frederick Douglass, Society, Documentary (genre), Los Angeles, Minority Groups
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PASSINGS: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Walt Dropo, Eugene V. Wolfenstein
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Italian economist, architect of euro
Italian economist Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70, one of the intellectual architects of the euro and a member of the European Central Bank's first executive board, died Saturday night after...Tags: Heart Attack, Physical Conditions, College Football, Detroit Tigers, Social Sciences
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