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A celebration of the life and music of Atlanta’s Mary Lou Williams
Born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta on May 8, 1910, Mary Lou Williams was one of the most influential jazz musicians in the ...
Gwendolyn Brooks, Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, wrote of life’s also-rans
Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...
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How this ‘vessel of freedom’ in Oklahoma honors Vietnamese refugees who built new lives in America
A new art installation in the heart of Oklahoma City’s Asian District marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.