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Iconic New Orleans artist Bunny Matthews' wit, humor and controversy chronicled in new biography (opens the original)
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âBunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions,â by Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 336 pages. âBe witty. Be nasty. Be silly. Donât be boring.â Those words, written by Bunny Matthews in 1988, might as well have been his personal motto. The iconic New Orleans cartoonist and music critic, best known as the creator of the Vic and Natâly comic strip, could be simultaneously witty, nasty, silly and light-years from boring, all in a single, s
REVIEW: New biography sheds light on Mahalia Jackson's role in the civil rights movement (opens the original)
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"Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up a Little Higher: The Story of an American Civil Rights Pioneer," by Timothy B. Tyson and Mary D. Williams, Liveright, 256 pages. Of the many celebrities and civil rights luminaries who attended and performed at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, Mahalia Jackson was a singular, uniting force. The âWorldâs Greatest Gospel Singerâ was a superstar of stage, screen and the recording studio, having launched a niche musical genre to mai
REVIEW: Princeton professor's book delves into the roots of blackface in American society (opens the original)
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âDarkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment,â by Rhae Lynn Barnes, Liveright, 528 pages. A century and a half ago, as centennial celebrations touched off across the country, much of White America was united by the crude caricature known as blackface. Once the dominion of professional minstrel performers, amateur blackface began to proliferate in the waning days of Reconstruction, permeating everyday American life. From coast to coast, blackface became inescapable. Fraternal o
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