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Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering

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Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, ‘Lady in Satin,’ in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images by Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University Sixty-five years...
Arts and Culture

By not lip-syncing Amy Winehouse’s songs, actress Marisa Abela confronts impossible expectations in ‘Back to Black’

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Actress Marisa Abela and actor Eddie Marsan film a scene for the Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Back to Black’ in London. Neil Mockford/GC Images via...
Arts and Culture

 Clairton’s own Rema Webb—Broadway star returns home to perform, Nov. 18-19

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REMA WEBB Performing on stage is what Rema Webb was born to do. And she’s over the moon to be returning to the Steel City this...
Arts and Culture

Broadway’s neon lights shine with 10 new Black plays, musicals

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Barring any restrictions, the late summer and fall plays and musicals will feature no less than a dozen African American-themed productions – ten of...
Arts and Culture

Guest Editorial: The importance of music in shaping our minds

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A late popular deejay used to say that “music is the soundtrack of our lives.” On the surface that might not sound like it...
Entertainment

Audra McDonald helps 'Lady Day' turn a profit

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NEW YORK (AP) — Audra McDonald has propelled her new Broadway show into profitability. Producers of the play "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill"...
Entertainment

McDonald makes Broadway history with sixth Tony Award

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NEW YORK (AP) —NEW YORK (AP) — Audra McDonald has become the Tony Awards' most decorated actress. McDonald, at 43, won her sixth Tony for...
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Maya Angelou remembered for her universal appeal

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NEW YORK (AP) — You didn't have to love books or share her background or even know a lot about Maya Angelou to feel...
Entertainment

Reactions to the death of Maya Angelou

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NEW YORK (AP) — Politicians, media figures and fellow artists are paying tribute to Maya Angelou, the author of "I Know Why the Caged...
Entertainment

Excerpts of the poetry and prose of Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou's words spanned worlds: From the inner city to the presidential stage, from her painful childhood to a soaring career as a poet,...
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