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...Rosetta Reitz, 84, borrowed $10,000 in 1979 and created Rosetta Records to resurrect blues and jazz music from long-forgotten female artists such as Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey, producing 17 albums and returning their work to renown...
...Bernardine Dohrn because others associate with them [June 9]? I am from the Deep South, where a lot of folks associated with KKK members and said "everybody else does." That was wrong, and this is wrong. We should expect better judgment from someone vying for the presidency. Chuck Rainey, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...What was your most memorable interview? -Terry Rainey, Chandler, Ariz. The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of the night; a doctor working for Doctors Without Borders in Somalia, operating by kerosene lantern in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory...
...launched. Working with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation started Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry-recitation contest for high school students, which was won this May by one Amanda Fernandez of Washington on the strength of her thunderous version of Sterling A. Brown's "Ma Rainey...
...novel, maybe even the movies. But just four months later, liver cancer was diagnosed, and he died last week at age 60, ensuring that his life would forever be defined by the great work that he spent more than two decades creating. Each of his 10 plays, from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (which opened on Broadway in 1984) to his latest, Radio Golf, was set in a different decade, chronicling the struggle of African Americans to come to terms with the legacy of slavery and the injustices of today. His work stood apart from, and above, nearly everything else...