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Folk singer, songwriter whose music included hit song 'Walk Right In' dies at 74
The Associated PressErik Darling, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group The Weavers, has died after battling lymphoma. He was 74. He died Sunday in Chapel Hill, not far from Raleigh....Tags: Music, Greenwich Village, Weston (Fairfield, Connecticut), Death and Dying, North Carolina
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Angelou, Lear to get Philadelphia's Marian Anderson Award honoring humanitarians in the arts
Author Maya Angelou and TV producer Norman Lear will be the 2008 recipients of the Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership benefits humanity. They are to accept their honors, each with an accompanying $100,000 honorarium, at the...Tags: Television, Oprah Winfrey, Sidney Poitier, Richard Gere, Marian Anderson
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Remembering Lenny Your excellent take on Lenny Bruce ("Nobody, nothing was sacred," July 6) brought back memories, not only of him, but of the Cloister Inn. When I was driving a Flash Cab in the early '50s, the Maryland Hotel cabstand was pretty much my...Tags: Maryland, Studs Terkel, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Chicago
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'Bad boy' host of '60s late-night TV
Chicago Tribune NewspapersLes Crane, called the "bad boy of late-night television" when he vied for ratings against talk-show king Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s, has died. He was 74. His death of natural causes Sunday at a hospital north of San Francisco was announced by his...Tags: Alabama, Executive Branch, Government, Justice and Rights, William F. Buckley
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Les Crane, 74; former late-night TV host also founded software company
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLes Crane, called the "bad boy of late-night television" when he vied for ratings against talk-show king Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s, died of natural causes Sunday at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, north of San Francisco. He was 74. His death...Tags: Death and Dying, Government, Business Enterprises, Norman Mailer, Tina Louise
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'In Search of the Black Fantastic' by Richard Iton
Special to The TimesJuly 10, 2008 When Paul Robeson declared, at the height of Cold War tensions, that black Americans would never fight for a nation that had "oppressed us for generations" in a war against the Soviet Union, the actor and civil rights advocate ignited a...Tags: Sidney Poitier, Martin Luther King Jr., Racism, Culture, Hurricanes
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'Palace Council' by Stephen L. Carter
Special to The TimesJuly 8, 2008 It's no surprise that in "Palace Council," the third of Stephen L. Carter's fables about black America's upper crust, success depends not on what you know but whom. With the right connections -- along with the right bloodlines and...Tags: Books and Magazines, Joseph P. Kennedy, Billy Dee Williams, Lena Horne, Culture
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'Flame of hope burning bright'
Q: It seems there is a shift going on within the civil rights movement away from the old-guard groups such as the NAACP and Operation PUSH and toward blogs and Internet-based groups. Would you agree? A: No. New technology does not change the land-based...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Government, MySpace, Jesse Jackson, NAACP
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"Palace Council,' by Stephen L. Carter
Chicago Tribune NewspapersIt's no surprise that in "Palace Council," the third of Stephen L. Carter's fables about black America's upper crust, success depends not on what you know but whom. With the right connections—along with the right bloodlines and education—a...Tags: Joseph P. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Lena Horne, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Langston Hughes
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Ending the war of black on black
To be a black male is to be always at war, and no flight to the county can save us, because even there we are met by the assumption of violence, by the specter of who we might turn on next." So saith Ta-Nehisi Coates in his brilliant memoir The Beautiful...Tags: Mariah Carey, Oprah Winfrey, Father's Day, Culture, Civil Rights
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A conversation with Rev. Jesse Jackson
For nearly half a century, Rev. Jesse Jackson has ranked as America's most ubiquitous civil rights crusader, working alongside Rev..Martin Luther King Jr., founding Operation PUSH, demanding equality from corporate America and twice making credible runs...Tags: Political Candidates, Martin Luther King Jr., Government, MySpace, Jesse Jackson
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Remembering Heston the maverick
CAUSE CÉLÈBRECHARLTON Heston, who died Saturday, was a political individualist in a town that values conformity far more than it likes to admit. This week, Hollywood activists across the political spectrum recalled the Academy Award-winning actor as an independent...Tags: Kirk Douglas, Sidney Poitier, Martin Luther King Jr., Marlon Brando, Culture
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