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Amanda Aldridge: Remembering the pioneering British opera singer and composer in Friday’s Google Doodle

Londoner whose own performing career was cut short by laryngitis reinvented herself as prolific author of romantic ‘parlour music’

The Independent UK

The man in the song every Scottish trade unionist will have heard

ON Good Friday in Salt Lake City, Utah, I made a pilgrimage to a place of martyrdom. At the edge of a public park, a blue-haired Catholic anarchist…

The National (Scotland)

Eastern Standard Preview for May 5, 2022

You may have sung the first verse of Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home,” but are you aware of the story of slavery told in the remaining verses? Historian Emily Bingham has published a book about it. Tom Eblen gets details and we listen to a version performed by the…

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Lost portrait of black actor and rights campaigner Paul Robeson to go on show

Glyn Philpot’s 1930 painting of actor playing Othello at Savoy one of several portrayals of people of colour in Chichester exhibition

The Guardian - UK

Hollywood's thwarting of Anna May Wong

Wong persevered, even when Hollywood stifled her endeavors. Now, she is being celebrated by the U.S. Mint

Salon

Racism and the roots of conservative philanthropy in the US

How a backlash against racial liberalism led to the rise of a philanthropy that discourages discussions on race.

Al Jazeera

How American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson became a hero in China

Chinese broadcasters have aired shows featuring Paul Robeson (1898-1976), one of the most popular African American singers and actors of his era and a well-known civil rights activist, several times in recent years.

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