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These powerful protest songs are still inspiring people young and old today, and some of these tracks are decades old.
Kandace Springs' ode to Billie Holiday is an introspective journey through the joy and sorrow of our experience as grown ...
This is my reading of the poem commonly known as Twas the Night Before Christmas. Chief Justice Roberts Sets Record Straight On SCOTUS Overruling Precedent Tourists are cancelling trips to the US ...
A Louisiana legislative bill proposes a sales tax holiday for "back-to-school" items. Shreveport Democratic Representative Joy Walters' House Bill 551, establishes an annual sales tax holiday on ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KCTV) - A bill has been introduced that would establish Easter Monday as a new federal holiday. U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) says he recently helped to introduce the Easter ...
In the late 1930s, Billie Holiday came across a poem that would change the course of her career and place her at the center of a political storm. The poem “Strange Fruit” was written by Abel Meeropol, ...
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill Friday that would establish President Trump’s birthday, June 14, as a public holiday. The Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act ...
Show more Billie Holiday performed for rapt audiences at ... Rommi is a guest curator of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Poetry Please and a contributor to programmes ranging from Front Row to The ...
The holiday season is a time for reflection, connection, and healing, encouraging appreciation of life's small joys. The holiday season is here, so here’s a festive poem to remind us that cancer ...
The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy.
You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?
That is the impetus behind the Aiken Symphony's annual holiday concert ... narrator in a special rendition of Bill Holcombe's musical setting of the poem "’Twas the Night Before Christmas." ...