Highlights
A collection of news and information related to Slavery published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 1485
» View courant.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-124
Next >
-
Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen
3 stars (out of 4) Kanye West’s sixth studio album, “Yeezus” (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam), is the latest affront from an artist who keeps inventing ways to tick people off. At first listen, it is hostile, abrasive (both sonically and...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Artists
-
NAACP hosts Juneteenth celebration in El Centro
Staff Writer, Copy EditorThe commemoration of Juneteenth returned to the Valley on Saturday after having taken a short hiatus. Although the event did not attract the crowds organizers had hoped for, they expressed confidence it would improve with each passing year. “...Tags: NAACP, Juneteenth
-
Review: "Every Boy Should Have a Man" by Preston Allen
Genre mash-ups are de rigueur these days. Of course, writers like Margaret Atwood have been tight-roping the misty border between literary fiction and speculative fiction, fantasy and mystery for years. But a new outcropping of younger upstarts, such as...
Tags: Literature, Customs and Tradition, Genres, Theft, Michael Chabon
-
YEEZUS! Kanye plans more Chicago 'projections' Saturday
RedEyeYeezus, we have a leak. Along with the (conveniently timed?) illegal availability of Kanye West’s album “Yeezus” Friday, the Chicago-raised rapper announced a round of new “projections” slated for locations across the...Tags: United Center, Museums, Chicago Loop, Field Museum of Natural History, McCormick Place
-
Review: "Silver Star" by Jeannette Walls
An Oscar Wilde quote prefaces Jeannette Walls' new novel, "The Silver Star": "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." Despite the epigraph, truth has never been simpler than in Walls' first foray into pure fiction. Having written...
Tags: Chicken Pot Pie, Arts and Culture, Literature, Pies and Tarts
-
Kanye West's 'Yeezus' leaks, Internet goes crazy
Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic"Yeezus," the highly anticipated new album from Kanye West, leaked online on Friday morning, resulting in immediate Twitter trending and sending less-ethical fans all over the world to various illegal download and mirror sites to get a free copy. The...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Entertainment, Music, Kanye West, Frank Ocean
-
First take on Kanye West's 'Yeezus': dark, defiant, polarizing
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticOne of the most striking metaphors for the tension within “Yeezus,” the new album from rapper Kanye West, arrives nearly 25 minutes in during a song called “I’m in It.” It involves a Martin Luther King Jr. quote. “Thank...Tags: Entertainment, Music, Kanye West, Martin Luther King Jr.
-
Robert W. Fogel 1926-2013
Robert W. Fogel, a University of Chicago professor who in 1993 joined the Hyde Park school's line of Nobel Prize winners in economics, created a body of work that challenged widely held assumptions about American history. Early in his career, Mr....
Tags: Science and Technology, Career and Workplace, Hyde Park, Ethics, Cornell University
-
Did Tall Ship Amistad Sail Off With $1.4M In State Money?
State Rep. Diana Urban spoke for all Connecticut taxpayers this week when she demanded a full accounting of the millions of state dollars that have been invested in the tall ship Amistad. The Day of New London reports that Amistad America Inc. of...
Tags: Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut), Internal Revenue Service, Mystic Seaport, North Stonington, New London (New London, Connecticut)
-
Robert Fogel dies at 86; economic historian won Nobel Prize
Robert Fogel, the University of Chicago economic historian awarded a Nobel Prize for his data-driven reconsiderations of how railways and slavery influenced U.S. economic history, has died. He was 86. Fogel died Tuesday at Manor Care Health Services...Tags: Harvard University, Entertainment Events, Manor Care Incorporated, Health Insurance Cost, Columbia University
-
Local Voices: Palos Heights, Orland Park, Tinley Park, Palos Park
Letters to the editor from Palos Heights, Orland Park, Tinley Park and Palos Park residents. Gas-price mystery Here we go again. We, the Chicago-area lemmings, who rely upon gasoline for our daily lives, again face insane prices. Reports suggest...Tags: Voting, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Interior Policy, Elections, Pension and Welfare
-
READER SUBMITTED: Amistad Letters Content Revealed On Juneteenth
HartfordIn honor of Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, on June 19, a special exhibit including the four Amistad related letters and their transcriptions will open at the Connecticut Historical...Tags: Social Issues, Auction Service, Connecticut Historical Society, Arts and Culture, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut)
Jun 16, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jun 15, 2013
|Story| Imperial Valley Press Online
Jun 14, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jun 14, 2013
|Story| RedEye
Jun 14, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jun 14, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 14, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 12, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jun 9, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Original site for Slavery topic gallery.