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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ponyboy Curtis recites the poem to Johnny Cade while they are hiding at an old church in The Outsiders, a 1983 American coming-of-age...

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Nov 19, 20191 min read


Acclaimed Novelist Ernest J. Gaines Dies
Watch a 23-second video.

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Nov 6, 20191 min read


Artist Kiki Smith Opening in Paris
Click for 5 minutes of Kiki Smith's work. Smith is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth...

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Oct 27, 20191 min read


Mayan Day of the Dead in Belize
Watch Simply Belize:The Yucatec Maya, Part 1, Day of the Dead

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Oct 18, 20191 min read


Pioneer Woman Photographer in U.S Was Portuguese
July 18, 1944: Photographers and reporters at the site of the Port Chicago munitions explosion. Virginia de Carvalho is in the foreground....

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Oct 7, 20195 min read



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Oct 4, 20190 min read


Opera Diva Jessye Norman Dies at 74
She sings the 5-minute aria, "When I Am Laid in Earth", from Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas".

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Sep 30, 20191 min read


I'm Old, and I'm Proud
(This piece was first published as a guest blog on an author's website on May 16, 2018.) An elderly relative from Belize visited my...
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Sep 22, 20193 min read


She Must Be From Another Country
By Imtiaz Dharker THEY’LL SAY: ‘SHE MUST BE FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY’ When I can’t comprehend why they’re burning books or slashing...
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Sep 16, 20192 min read


One Chance to Take Right Photo
Photo by Abrahamina Verhoef Abrahamina Verhoef is more than a photographer. She is a visual artist. Her photographs of nature are edgy,...
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Sep 9, 20193 min read


JR's Moving Mural of San Francisco
Artist JR discusses his monumental new interactive mural project featuring photographs and audio recordings of 1,200 residents of the...

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Aug 28, 20191 min read



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Aug 6, 20190 min read


Tape for Turn of the Year
These are the final lines written on a roll of adding machine tape from December 1963 to June 1964: the roll has lifted from the floor...

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Jul 31, 20191 min read


ORLA MARÍTIMA
O tempo das suaves raparigas é junto ao mar ao longo das avenidas ao sol dos solitários dias de dezembro Tudo ali pára como nas...

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Jul 27, 20191 min read


Beneath the Sweater and the Skin
How many years of beauty do I have left? she asks me. How many more do you want? Here. Here is 34. Here is 50. When you are 80 years old...

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Jul 23, 20191 min read


Spinning Stillness
Sculptor Anthony Howe says that he wants his work to give people "a moment or two where everything else comes to a stop...and they're put...

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Jul 20, 20191 min read


"Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly"
"NEVER BE AFRAID TO LOVE ..."

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Jul 17, 20191 min read


"Summertime"
Ella Fitgerald and Louis Armstrong perform "Summertime" , music by George Gershwin and lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin.

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Jul 13, 20191 min read


Happy Fourth of July
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GOSPEL CHOIR CANTA "LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING"; O HINO AFRO-AMERICANO LETRA DE JAMES WELDON JOHNSON E MÚSICA DE JOHN...

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Jul 1, 20191 min read


The Joy of Books
Take a minute and watch this video.

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Jun 25, 20191 min read
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