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"I must go to London immediately." Thus speaks Charles Dickens, 58, on the evening of June 8, 1870. They are his last words. He collapses on a sofa in his dining room and dies the following night. Upon hearing the news, a melancholy world grieves for itself: there will be...
Julia feels that she has betrayed her race. A romantic idealist, she struggles to convince herself that her love for Herman is a simple emotion, uncomplicated by their racial difference. But America's history of sexual relations between white men and Black women echoes of ugly racism: Southern gentlemen--even...
Viewers will recognize many of the photographs from their reading of Russian literature. One magnificent, sprawling landscape of the Dikanka estate in the Ukraine, complete with manor house, onion-domed church and clusters of khaty, or peasant huts, is a breathtaking evocation of Gogol's stories, Evenings on a...
The newspapers have no immediate financial interest in opposing casino gambling. Indeed, papers around the Gold Coast would probably gain from any casino-induced economic revival. So why did the publishers ante up? "We want to participate on the local level with other Florida businesses that see the serious social...
Hove's comments were both true and reasonable, but they rubbed some whites the wrong way. Hove's white co-minister of justice, Hilary Squires, angrily attacked Hove and was soon joined by the army and police commanders, both white. The council thereupon reprimanded Hove unanimously and, after...