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...frequenting Harlem's famous cabarets and hosting legendary parties where struggling black artists could establish contacts with New York's influential whites. Van Vechten is credited with directly assisting in the publication of many works by black authors, including Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, the reissuing of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and many of Hughes's works (he indeed is solely responsible for launching Hughes's major publishing career). As the letters between him and Hughes attest, Van Vechten seemed genuinely enamored with the black culture thriving Uptown. Nevertheless, this same man outraged...
...This whole thing is a religious-liberty nightmare," said the Rev. C. Weldon Gaddy, a Baptist minister and the executive director of the Interfaith Alliance. "You can't have federal funds supporting sectarian proselytizing," he told the Boston Globe. Critics who share the Rev. Gaddy's point of view worry that despite the President's assurances Monday that the funding will not "go to support the religious activities of any group," the very nature of faith-based groups means their clients will be subject to sectarian influences. What if, they ask, someone needed help getting out of an abusive relationship...
Besides numerous speeches, the vigil included several poetry readings and musical performances by groups including Kuumba Singers, who led the gathering in a rendition of James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing...
...basically say we are at war," Representative Curtis Weldon told CNN this week following closed-door hearings he held to study recent waves of cyber-attacks on the Pentagon's computer networks. Well, not quite. The hearings did reveal a new and "more systemic" pattern of assaults, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, but nothing that should cause the nation to panic. "The Pentagon is simply learning that hacker probes are a cost of doing business over the Internet," he says. "These probes will continue to happen, and the military is just going to have to put up better cyber...
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