Common brings conscious hip-hop style to Worcester
Joanna James
Soul-inspiring hip-hop artist Common isn’t afraid to extol a positive message through his raps.
He has done it yet again with his latest album “Finding Forever,” combating the Dirty South and gangsta rap that has been recently under fire for lyrics disrespecting women and glamorizing violence and drugs. Full story
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New work celebrates life of Ark. civil rights pioneer
Trish Hollenbeck
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Wiley Austin Branton could have had an easy life. He could have stayed in his hometown of Pine Bluff and worked in his family’s taxi business. His family was well-to-do financially and respected in the community.
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Racial comment stalls
effort to honor Saul Bellow
CHICAGO — In a city whose streets commemorate literary notables like the German Goethe and the Frenchman Jean Racine, naming an avenue, a statue, or maybe a school after the American giant Saul Bellow should come without hesitation or controversy.
However, when Bellow’s longtime friend and University of Chicago colleague Richard Stern sent the idea along to Mayor Richard Daley’s office, which consulted the alderman representing Bellow’s old Hyde Park neighborhood about the request, it was promptly denied. Full story
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