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Allan Powell: What can we learn from 'Little Dorrit?'
Hardly more than a year ago, I made my first contact with “Little Dorrit” when I read a newly published biography of Charles Dickens. Then, a friend, the late Robert Molten, bound several editions of Harper’s Magazine (1856) into three...Tags: Labor Legislation, Employees, Barack Obama, Philosophy, Charles Dickens
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Obama to sign off on Tubman monument on Eastern Shore
President Barack Obama will sign a proclamation Monday creating a Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument on the Eastern Shore, a designation long sought by advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The designation protects the land...
Tags: Dorchester County, Harriet Tubman, Barack Obama, Martin O'Malley
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Master and slaves, no longer bonded
One could never accuse Northlight Theatre of a lack of eclecticism in its programming. In a matter of weeks, subscribers there in Skokie have gone from chortling at Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple," of all things, to a drama that begins with the...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Passover, Judaism, Religion and Belief
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Valentine's Day: Four socially responsible ways to celebrate
I love love. When it comes to Valentine’s Day, though, I’d rather skip the whole ordeal and enjoy a date night with my husband on any other night in February. The only thing more dreadful than prix fixe Valentine’s meals are the...
Tags: Candy, Flowers and Gifts, Human Rights, Politics, Hugh Jackman, The Huffington Post
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Should "Lincoln" filmmakers apologize to Connecticut?
Congressman Joe Courtney thinks the makers of “Lincoln” should apologize for misrepresenting Connecticut’s 1865 vote on slavery in the movie -- and do a remake. Critics have praised the film about the 13th Amendment to the...Tags: The New York Times, Argo (movie), Movies, Joe Courtney, Social Issues
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Stowe Center Wins Auction For 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Wallpaper
A chunk of wallpaper manufactured in England in 1853 to glom onto the popularity of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was auctioned off in Plainville on Tuesday night. It wound up exactly where it...
Tags: Black History, African-American History Month, Plainville, Auction Service, Old Saybrook
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'Django Unchained' is Tarantino, undisciplined ★★
In "Django Unchained," which has its moments of devilish glee in and among dubious wallows in numbing slaughter, writer-director-trash compactor Quentin Tarantino delivers a mashup of several hundred of his favorite movies, all hanging, like barnacles,...
Tags: Pulp Fiction (movie), Ku Klux Klan, Franco Nero, Inglourious Basterds (movie), Leonardo DiCaprio
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Aberdeen family has roots in Mauritius
You'd think that Aberdeen's ties to Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean, would be almost nonexistent. However, Jen and Jean-Marie Thomas just got back from there eight days ago. Jean-Marie is a native of the island nation, which is 1,200...
Tags: Museums, England, Religion and Belief, Beaches, Mauritius
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Emily Raboteau's fresh exploration of identity and faith
-------------------- Searching for Zion The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora Emily Raboteau Atlantic Monthly Press: 320 pp., $25 -------------------- In 1965, author and civil rights essayist James Baldwin appeared at the Cambridge Union...Tags: Malcolm X, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, The New York Times, Israel
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Courtney Not Quite Right About Connecticut And Slavery
The Hartford CourantCongressman Joe Courtney recently wrote a letter to director Steven Spielberg insisting that he had made a mistake in his film "Lincoln": "I was on the edge of my seat during the roll call vote on the ratification of the 13th Amendment outlawing...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Abraham Lincoln
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Contraband slaves seek freedom at Fort Monroe
Few people imagined the consequences when Fort Monroe commander Benjamin F. Butler gave three Hampton slaves asylum as "contraband of war" 150 years ago. For generations, Southern slave-holders talked of their "contented Negroes" with conviction....
Tags: Phoebus (Hampton, Virginia), Unrest, Conflicts and War, The New York Times, Fort Monroe, Hampton University
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Wynton Marsalis' Pulitzer-winning 'Blood on the Fields' returns
Sixteen years ago, newspapers across America riffed on an unexpected theme: For the first time, a jazz composition had won the country's highest musical honor. "Marsalis swings a Pulitzer" trumpeted USA Today, its message echoing wherever cultural...
Tags: Justice System, Wynton Marsalis, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment Events, Duke Ellington
Mar 22, 2013
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Mar 22, 2013
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Jan 27, 2013
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Feb 7, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013
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Feb 13, 2013
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Dec 24, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Feb 13, 2013
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Jan 18, 2013
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Feb 10, 2013
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Jan 14, 2013
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Feb 12, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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