Black Chat Tutu Dinners keep ballet on its toes
All work and no play does not describe the Milwaukee Ballet! Yes, the company has been busy training summer school students and working feverishly on the new production of "The Nutcracker." But throughout the summer, company personnel also have paused to join friends of the Ballet at parties that were simply tu-tu much.The eight resulting interludes weren't just fund-raisers; each had an exotic theme, was in a must-see location and was planned by the...
Black Chat Immoral majority
Next week, at their annual convention, the Republicans will once more sound the drum for family values. But a series of scandals has damaged their claim to the moral highground.LIKE SO MANY other newcomers to Capitol Hill, Jon and Meredith Christensen had flown to Washington 21 months ago with the world at their feet. His film-star looks and fervent religious zeal had just swept the young insurance salesman into Congress on a tide of American resentment against a liberal White House. She...
Black Chat OLD CONFEDERATE CAPITAL CHECKS ITS RACIAL PULSE
WHITES AND BLACKS IN RICHMOND, VA., REPORT PROGRESS - BUT MUCH FARTHER TO GO
THE PRESIDENT'S RACE INITIATIVE From Jeb Stuart to Arthur Ashe along Monument Avenue here is exactly 1 1/2 miles of Old South nostalgia in bronze and stone and brick and marble.But the historical journey from the statue of one Virginian to the other is a palpable reminder of the extended national conversation on race that has been going on long before President Bill Clinton called for such a dialogue one year ago Sunday. Stuart, the young Confederate general who gave his...
Black Chat New voices, new viewpoints, in the national conversation,
Books
IC3. Eds. Courttia Newland and Kadija Sesay. Hamish Hamilton, Pounds 9.99, ISBN 0 241 14074 9. Pounds 8.99 (free p&p) 0870 160 80 80 Shades of experience: Diran Adebayo enjoys a representative collection of writing by black Britons YOUR reaction to IC3 - subtitled "The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain" - will depend, I think, on which notion of writing you hold dearer: a "high" view of writing as a discipline that...
Black Chat CHAT: BOB MORRIS,
GET TO KNOW THE REAL 'MAN IN BLACK'
Bob Morris, better known to readers as "The Man in Black," has been a photographer at the Savannah Morning News for more than 25 years. While many of you have the opportunity to read his funny stories in his weekly column, it is rare that we actually gain insight into him as a person. Those of us who work with him see it on a daily basis, but we thought this would be a good opportunity for the public to see it, too.Before joining the newspaper, Bob worked as a...