Book World: Native American comedians get their due
Donald Liebenson, The Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2021
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By Kliph Nesteroff
- - - I know a lot of you white people have never seen an Indian do stand-up comedy before, joked Charlie Hill on The Richard Pryor Show in 1977. Like, for so long you probably thought that Indians never had a sense of humor. We never thought you were too funny either.
Hill s TV debut, making him the first indigenous comedian in prime time, is one of the milestones that Kliph Nesteroff chronicles in We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, an illuminating and stereotype-busting history of Native Americans and comedy.
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Former student pledges additional $15 million to Morgan State, a landmark gift for HBCUs
Nick Anderson, The Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2021
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Morgan State is one of the nation s historically Black colleges and universities.Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton
Calvin E. Tyler Jr. grew up in what he recalls as very humble beginnings in Baltimore, went to Morgan State University in his home city in the early 1960s, left school without finishing his degree for want of money, became a driver for United Parcel Service, jumped into management and retired in 1998 as senior vice president after a long and successful run with UPS.