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ACH Clear Pathways purchases Kaufmann Center in Hill District
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Sugar imports increase 21pc despite upturn in local production
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LETTERS: Why we need 100pc green energy this year
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High drama for Clarendon teen actor - Seeks helping hand to attend UK theatre school
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Milwaukee Rep Selects Two Finalists for the National August Wilson Monologue Competition - Milwaukee Community Journal
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Selects Two High School Student Finalists to Participate in the August Wilson Monologue Competition National Final on May 3, 2021 Milwaukee, Wis – March 31, 2021 –On Monday, March 29, ten high school students competed virtually in Milwaukee Rep’s August Wilson Monologue
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Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy Jr. is the founder of Motown Records, the first black owned music label in the U.S. He was born on November 28, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan to Berry Gordy, Sr. and Bertha Fuller Gordy. He had seven other siblings and was the seventh of his eight siblings. He is a descendent of a white
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Nov
28
1929
Uganda: Govt Selects Avocado As High Value Export Crop
Government has selected avocado as one of the high economic potential crops beside coffee that will be promoted and grown throughout the country for export
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Mbongeni Ngema
Mbongeni Ngema , (born 1955, Verulam, S.Af.), South African playwright, composer, choreographer, and theatrical director known largely for plays that reflect the spirit of black South Africans under
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Black Arts/West
Black Arts/West was Seattle’s first black theatre, eventually became a nationally known entity across the United States. Evolving out of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, it was founded by Douglas Q. Barnett in 1969. Black Arts/West functioned as a three component program: theatre, dance, and
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Gordone, Charles (1925- )
Charles Gordone was born Charles Edward Fleming on October 12, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio to parents William and Camille Fleming.  He took his stepfather’s surname of Gordon when his mother remarried when he was five years old.  The family moved to Elkhart, Indiana, his mother’s hometown, when Charles
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Nov
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1995
NJAGI: Incoherent policies draw back gains in smallholder
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Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers , née Lula Carson Smith (born February 19, 1917, Columbus, Georgia, U.S.—died September 29, 1967, Nyack, New York), American writer of novels and stories that depict the inner lives of lonely
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29
1967
Ben Jonson
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Queen Latifah Wants ‘Gone With The Wind’ Gone
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Aimé Césaire
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2008
Lorraine Hansberry
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12
1965
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Uganda: NRM Manifesto - Govt Lists Gains in Health Sector
Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said access to healthcare has improved, with 86 per cent of the population within 5km of reach of public or private health
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This Day In History - June 29
1967: Israel defies international protests and unites divided city of Jerusalem for first time in two decades, following victory in Six-Day
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Negro Repertory Company (Seattle) 1936-1939
The Negro Repertory Company (NRC) was established in 1936 by Florence and James Burton, directors of the Seattle Repertory Playhouse (SRP), as the Negro unit of the Federal Theatre Program, a part of the WPA. In its short life it produced ambitious and controversial plays that reached a wide
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Oct
27
1936
An invitation to an online tour of the Harlem Renaissance
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Ossie Davis
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Feb
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2005
‘P-Valley’ Creator Katori Hall wins Pulitzer Prize – Free Press of Jacksonville
By Michael 'Ice-Blue' Harris | June 14, 2021 | 0  - (Source: www.rollingout.com) Katori Hall, the executive producer and showrunner for Starz’s hit drama “P-Valley” has been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The playwright’s comedy, The Hot Wing King was [...]
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Lesotho: PM Thabane resigns
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PBS Celebrates Pride Month with PRIDELAND, a Short-Form Digital Series and New One-Hour Special with Host and Actor Dyllón Burnside, Exploring LGBTQ+ Identity in the U.S. South
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August Wilson
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Ntozake Shange
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