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    Jul 21, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Afro-American newspaper honors paperboys and girls in anniversary celebration

    For Marian Anderson Bell, selling copies of the Afro-American newspaper on Baltimore streets as a 12-year-old papergirl in 1945 felt like freedom.
    For Marian Anderson Bell, selling copies of the Afro-American newspaper on Baltimore streets as a 12-year-old papergirl in 1945 felt like freedom. Now 79 years old, Bell reminisced Saturday about stashing away the pennies she earned to buy school...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, World War II (1939-1945), NAACP, Arts and Culture, Elijah E. Cummings

    2. Sep 8, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  2. Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney among Kennedy Center honorees

    Gold Derby
    The Kennedy Center has announced the five performers to be feted at the upcoming 33rd edition of its honors: daytime TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey; two musical titans -- pop superstar Paul McCartney and country crooner Merle Haggard; and two Broadway...
    3. Mar 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 1, 1941

    The Daily Mirror
    March 1, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about Marian Anderson and Tom Treanor has the story of Schuyler Standish, 13, who just enrolled at UCLA. Katharine Hepburn has promised director Garson Kanin a yes or no in 30 days. Meanwhile he......
    4. Jun 2, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Acclaimed conductor DePreist to advise troubled Pasadena Symphony and Pops

    Culture Monster
    The economically troubled, controversy-racked Pasadena Symphony and Pops announced Wednesday that it has hired an artistic advisor – and, for two October concerts , a conductor -- in James DePreist, who led the Oregon Symphony for more than 20 years.......
    5. Jul 27, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Betty Allen dies at 82; mezzo-soprano and music teacher

    Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 of complications from kidney disease at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82.
    Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 of complications from kidney disease at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82. If contralto Marian Anderson in the 1930s and 1940s...

    Tags: Music Theater, Entertainment, Health, Classical Music (genre), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)

    6. Feb 4, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  6. A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

    The Daily Mirror
    The dark ages of crossword puzzle construction: Look at all those two-letter answers! Marian Anderson performs at Philharmonic Auditorium in a recital of works by Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Rachmaninoff and Gretchaninoff, who is not a composer I recognize....
    7. Jan 19, 2009 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Barack Obama at Lincoln Memorial

    WASHINGTON — It was a day that combined high-minded political rhetoric with the very best of pop culture. Tens of thousands of citizens, a throng more than a mile long on the National Mall, braved cold weather and long security lines to attend a historic concert celebrating the country's first black president, held at the feet of the monument honoring the country's great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.
    Washington Bureau
    WASHINGTON — It was a day that combined high-minded political rhetoric with the very best of pop culture. Tens of thousands of citizens, a throng more than a mile long on the National Mall, braved cold weather and long security lines to attend a...

    Tags: U2 (music group), Tom Hanks, Martin Luther King Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Elections

    8. Jan 21, 2009 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Franklin, Perlman, Ma add musical flourishes to Obama inauguration

    In addition to the traditional marches and flourishes from a military band, the inaugural ceremony included two remarkable musical interludes. The first was provided by Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, whose dynamic, gospel-inflected delivery of "My...

    Tags: John F. Williams, Illinois, Aretha Franklin, Music Industry, Itzhak Perlman

    9. Nov 23, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Saving with Honest Abe

    Next year our nation's capital marks the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth with the rededication of the Lincoln Memorial, a re-enactment of Marian Anderson's concert at the memorial and other festivities. Keeping up with the Lincoln...

    Tags: Washington, DC, Washington (U.S. state), Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Logs Limited

    10. Jan 19, 2009 |Story| WXIN-LTV

  10. Big stars rock the Lincoln Memorial

    Reporting from Washington -- It was a day that combined inspiring political rhetoric with the very best of pop culture. Tens of thousands of citizens, a throng more than a mile long on the National Mall, braved frigid weather and long security lines to...

    Tags: Rick Warren, Joe Biden, U2 (music group), Tom Hanks, Martin Luther King Jr.

    11. Jan 19, 2009 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  11. Big Stars Rock Lincoln Memorial as Inauguration Festivities Begin

    WASHINGTON -- It was a day that combined high-minded political rhetoric with the very best of pop culture. Tens of thousands of citizens, a throng more than a mile long on the National Mall, braved frigid weather and long security lines to attend a...

    Tags: Joe Biden, Rick Warren, U2 (music group), Tom Hanks, Martin Luther King Jr.

    12. May 7, 2009 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  12. Limbaugh vs. Powell: Soul of the party

    The Swamp
    by Mark Silva With a shrinking base of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans, the stakes for leadership of the rebooted Republican Party grow higher each day. Radio's Rush Limbaugh, whom the Democrats, and particularly the Obama White House,...

    Tags: Government, Republican Party, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Parties and Movements

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