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I grew up in washington, d.c., raised by my grandmother who is from virginia. so i always felt i had one foot in the south. but as a young child, i was taught to fear the south a little bit because of the deep scars of our family's past. it's very easy for someone who was raised in the black community to come here and feel very negative thoughts about driving through cotton fields. you know, i know how i'm supposed to feel looking at the cotton field, but i don't feel that way. i quickly switch to i'm really intrigued about how these people live here. you know, so to me, i have turned that int...

Symphony Space, which celebrates James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses in its beloved annual Bloomsday on Broadway, marks the milestone occasion of the book’s 100th anniversary with a new commission in which Elevator Repair Service (ERS) brings the novel to wild, illuminating theatrical life.

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Even more. california secretary of state shirley weber, the daughter of shapecroppers who crafted legislation to create that first in the nation task force, spoke out at a recent meeting about sensing her family's fear as a child. let's take a listen. >> the fear my grandfather felt was palatable and it crippled him and his family's ability to dream beyond the cotton fields. he was dearly, dearly, and direly afraid his kids would be killed, his sons would be murerred, his wife would be raped, his daughters would have things done that he could not defend them. that in itself created such a trem...

Hutto's reluctance to speak ill of others would make him an object of scorn among many of his fellow conservatives in politics today.