Bonnaroo Dispatches: Stages
This four-day rock fest in rural Tennessee is an endurance event, to be sure, but for many it is a makeshift spiritual retreat—a “vibrational healing ground.” The second in a three part series…
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Bonnaroo 3: With a Buzz in Our Ears
In which our intrepid writers let the ethereal sounds of Sigur Ros ripple and echo through them, and learn to speak “hopelandic.”
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Bonnaroo: The Meeting Ground
It’s not hedonistic abandon that draws folks to the rock fest, but something else…
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House Made of Words: Momaday’s Novel Turns 40
House Made of Dawn inaugurated the so-called “Native American Renaissance”…
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Rick Warren Gives Pre-Inauguration Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church
Controversial mega-pastor Rick Warren gave a little-noticed sermon at King’s home church in Atlanta on Monday. In it he seemed to dance around the controversy, invoking King’s unpopularity seemingly in reference to his.
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Living to See the Day: Civil Rights Leaders and Obama
Forty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, veterans of the Civil Rights era still expected that they would not live to see an African American elected to the presidency. But iconic figures like C.T. Vivian supported Obama and believed that the arc was bending toward justice.
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