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...with red and gold banners. But Zang's sunburnt skin and his Mao suit and Lenin hat look slightly out of place in this smart Guangzhou hotel with its marble-lined lobby. And despite the generosity of his employer, he confesses, he'd rather be elsewhere - eating a traditional reunion feast with his family in Shanghe county, then maybe watching the New Year's Eve gala broadcast on China Central Television. "I really wanted to make it home," says Zang, "but I couldn't this year...
...commander, was captured by his enemies, sold to slave traders and eventually taken to a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he spent the next 40 years using his agricultural and management skills to turn its owner into one of the wealthiest men in the antebellum South. Through a chance reunion with a man that Rahman and his father once helped when he traveled in Africa, and the support of a local newspaper publisher, a campaign for his freedom began, and Rahman became one of the best-known faces of the strengthening abolitionist movement. He became so well-known, in fact...
...Michael Wolfe on this documentary and their previous Unity Productions Foundation work, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, learned about Prince Among Slaves while discussing the idea of a project based on the spiritual lives of slaves. After coming across Alford's book and contacting him, the two attended a reunion of Rahman's descendants in Natchez. That meeting, and subsequent research, introduced them to examples of African slaves who were able to hold on to their cultural and religious identities and use their educations and practical skills to help in the development of early America...
...scene that greeted the candidate backstage could have been a Kennedy family reunion. Ted's branch of the clan had gotten there first. The senator was there with his congressman son Patrick, Ted's wife Vicki, and Vicki's son Curran. Then Caroline arrived with her three teenagers. Teddy's sisters, Eunice Shriver and Jean Kennedy Smith, showed up too, along with an assortment of their children and grandchildren. Through the blue curtains, the crowd was thundering...
Faust fielded questions about the endowment (large, and poorly understood), how being female informs her presidency (she has a “secret bond” with women on campus), and whether she will attend the ROTC commissioning ceremony, which she missed last year to speak at a Radcliffe reunion event, (unclear...