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It would be fair to say that Lena Horne, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 92 and being the legend that she was, would say herself that her film career was something of a major disappointment. She appeared in only some 18 films in almost 60 years, from her first, the 1935 short film Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party, where she appeared unbilled as dancer, to her last in 1994, where she appeared as herself to introduce some MGM film musical sequences in That's Entertainment III. But she was mainly relegated to appearing in brief musical sequences in movies, most of them for MGM where she was under contract, where she usually just sang a song and then left...
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I will be giving a talk, "China and Africa: Think Again," at the main campus of Johns Hopkins University, Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 12 Noon - 1:30 PM, 526 Merganthaler. Sponsored by The Arrighi Center for Global Studies, Co-sponsored by Department of Sociology's Program in Global Social Change and Development, the East Asian Studies Program, and Center for Africana Studies.
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A Senior Policy Advisor at the Office of the President has rejected suggestions that the President is opposed to the principle of paying public sector workers a decent wage.
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This will be a three-day weekend in the US, for the President's Day holiday. As usual I'll check in if needed, but routine blogging will return Tuesday. The holiday represents a merger of Lincoln's birthday (Feb. 12), for which I've already posted a relevant historical post, and George Washington's birthday. So here's a relevant Washington link: Background here; text here.
Letter from George Washington to Muhammed Ibn Abdullah - Sultan of Morocco
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Ethiopia military parades its might in Addis Ababa. [video:youtube:GIz26AINMlk]
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and peculiar Kenyans
This week, Multichoice Kenya launched a promotion called #DSTVrewards in which their active subscribers are eligible to win Kshs. 600,000 (~$7,000) in prizes per week for the next few months. In addition, other subscribers can win 10% discounts for paying on time or win a year's subscription by spotting a box while watching TV (and sensing an SMS to the company)
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Birmingham are fairly average in the goals stakes at Championship level but this bet is really all about Watford, whose tally of 60 goals scored in their 31 games is the highest in the division.
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Chukwuma is living through that difficult in-between time in young adulthood that many refer to as finding yourself. He is caught in the schism between going to college and going to work, being a proud Nigerian and blending in as an American, and figuring out what he wants to do with his life in the long run. To complicate things, he's in Fairbanks, Alaska - one of the coldest and most isolated places in the country. It's in Fairbanks that Chukwuma - or "Chuck" as his friends call him - reunites with his younger sister Chidinma after a tragic accident separates them for two years. Through the course of getting to know his sister, Chuck is forced to...
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By Fareed Zakaria Arguably the most important and innovative idea proposed by President Obama in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night was his call for high-quality, universal pre-school education. "Every dollar we invest in high-quality early childhood education can save more than seven dollars later on, by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen [...]
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Friday/Weekend Bonus Music Breaks got side-tracked a bit lately because of the Afcon fever. Good times were had by all. Let's pick up the thread though. Here are 10 music videos you might have missed over the past weeks. Burkina-American Ismael Sankara (remember Mikko's write-up about Ismael's surname and possible affiliations) released a new video: [...]
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This weekend marks the 2nd year of the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival, an event that seeks to present the "multi facets of South Africa's electronic music scene" with a weekend of performances and workshops. Judging from the promo video (above), the festival seems to be punting diversity and breaking down racial barriers under the [...]
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Post by Palesa Mazamisa The heinous brutal rape and subsequent slaughtering of Anene Booysen in South Africa's Western Cape province has brought into the open, once again, the miry underbelly of our rainbow nation. At the heart of violence that Anene was subjected to, lies a bigger issue that South Africans wilfully shunt and ignore. This issue [...]
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Here at Enough, we often swap emails with interesting articles and feature stories that we come across in our favorite publications and on our favorite websites. We wanted to share some of these stories with you as part of our effort to keep you up to date on what you need to know in the world of anti-genocide and crimes against humanity work.
Congo specialist Jason Stearns explains the elements, merits, and key unknowns of the framework agreement, or "11+1 agreement," put forth by the United Nations as the basis for ending conflict in the Kivus and instituting crucial countrywide reforms in Congo. The effort seems to be the most serious attempt at peace since the last U.N.-back talks ended in 2006, but will it overcome the "backdoor deals, opacity, and lack of follow-up" characteristic of ...
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It's hard to get the details on the logistical arrangements, or numbers, of the ECOWAS force in Mali. The majority...
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