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...facing me, hung the illustrated bracket for the House Scrabble Tournament, with each participant designated by first initial and last name. Towards the bottom was the appellation “M. Simon.” I now know this to be the entry of a forgiving young lady called Maya, but at the time I could scarcely help but lapse into a daydream about former Arizona Wildcats shooting guard and college basketball star Miles Simon. You know the expression “don’t let your imagination get the best of you”? It?...
Poems by renowned authors Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Margaret Walker, and Frances E. W. Harper were interspersed throughout the musical program, including a memorable rendition of Hughes’s “I Dream a World,” whose theme of insidious racism addressed timely concerns brought to light since Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, juxtaposed against the skillful and creative musical, song, and dance performances by the various student groups, the individually performed, heavily rehearsed, and stylized poetry fell somewhat flat...
...somebody done peeped dere hole card," said the Kingfish. "The Clinton Administration said no way dey would fund a bilingual Ebonics program, and Maya Angelou and Jesse Jackson got all bent out of shape too. So the school board issued a statement sayin' dey wasn't settin' up a bilingual program, jist trying to he'p the kids learn standard English. But den dey puts in a paragirraffe dat convinced me dat the school board needs some he'p with its own English." He read, "'In the clause African Language Systems are genetically based and not a dialect of English...
Summers’ twin daughters, Pamela and Ruth, are 15. His son, Harry, is 12. New has three daughters, Yael, 19, Orli, 14, and Maya...
Take Point scholar Maya Marcel-Keyes of Chicago, for instance. The 20-year-old daughter of conservative activist and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, Marcel-Keyes has a girlfriend but has dated two boys; identifies herself as queer (not lesbian), pro-life and "anarchist"; and attends Mass whenever she can spare the time from her menagerie. (When Marcel-Keyes and I spoke recently, she and her girlfriend had a rabbit, a ferret, a cockatiel, two rats and two salamanders.) For their part, several of the young Exodus Christians seemed more stereotypically gay--"I love that Prada bag!" a 16-year...