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Alvin Ailey Dance Theater: Ailey’s Comets Cometh

Ed Rampell: Ailey’s comets are soaring across the stage and illumining the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through April 21 with three programs, all of them containing the iconic Revelations, created by Alvin Ailey himself in 1960.

Manning Marable: Provocative Scholarship In Life & Death

By Anthony Asadullah Samad

Anthony Samad: Manning Marable, and his provocative scholarship, will be sorely missed. We’ve lost a true radical thinker and articulator of the African American experience in America.

Trust Black Women: Remove the Billboards

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Jan Robinson Flint: It is reprehensible that someone would use Black children as a tool to attack Black women for political purposes.

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Berry Craig: Called the “Ride for Respect,” the demonstration at Walmart corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, will be modeled on civil rights volunteers who rode buses into the South in the 1960s to protest Jim Crow racial injustice.

Charles Hayes: What 42 makes crystal clear is how shallow and superficial the strain of contempt is that enables and sustains racism as prejudice is handed down from one generation to the next.

Walter Moss: What unites us, as it did the early Progressives, is resistance to–in John Muir’s memorable phrase–“trying to make everything dollarable.”

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Alvin Ailey Dance Theater: Ailey’s Comets Cometh

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