August 2019

Paul Robeson’s Othello: How stage passion spilled into real life

Image copyright Chichester Festival Theatre Image caption The play’s poster shows an archive image of Uta Hagen, Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer together Paul Robeson was one of the most famous African Americans of his time, known for his acting and his talent as a singer. But his career was hit hard by his radical […]

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Trump Fuels Racial Disharmony. Will It Motivate or Discourage Black Voters?

Democratic presidential candidates have not settled on how to deal with the man they all hope to replace. While five of the party’s 20 candidates called Mr. Trump a racist during this week’s debates in Detroit, the party’s private polling shows that affixing that label to him is not the most effective way to peel

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‘Bachelorette’ Hannah Brown Reacts To Ex-Fiancé Jed Wyatt’s Shady Social Media Activity

“I don’t want America to hate him,” Hannah Brown told Jimmy Kimmel immediately after “The Bachelorette” finale aired Tuesday, in which viewers learned her final choice and eventual fiancé, Jed Wyatt, actually had a girlfriend the entire time the show was filming.  Understandably, the news rocked Brown as much as it did Bachelor Nation and

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Blackman the frontrunner in Florida State quarterback battle

James Blackman is in the driver’s seat in the quarterback competition at Florida State. As the Seminoles’ opened preseason practice on Friday, Blackman is the unquestioned leader. He was taking the first-team reps and guiding the Seminoles with a smile and business-like approach of a starting QB. But Florida State’s quarterback competition is a wide-open

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