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Poem of the week: Nizar Qabbani’s “The Old World is Dead”
February 24, 2011This unnamed verse, written in 1970, seems as if it could have been written yesterday in half a dozen nations - and in some U.S. states as well.
Read moreNY festival will showcase Cuban artists
February 10, 2011The festival will include Cuban artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, photographers and writers who will showcase their work.
Read moreGroups protest GOP censorship at Smithsonian
February 2, 2011Angry protesters called for the resignation of the Smithsonian Institution's secretary G. Wayne Clough who, under pressure from Republican lawmakers and Catholic conservatives, took down a video exhibition by a gay artist who died of AIDS.
Read moreWhere is the next Milton Rogovin? Gage Gallery opens Working-Class Eye exhibit
January 25, 2011Crowd packs Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery Jan. 20 for the opening of "The Working-Class Eye of Milton Rogovin."
Read moreDr. Margaret Burroughs, 1917-2010: What will your legacy be?
November 22, 2010A founder of one of the oldest African American history museums in the country has died.
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