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By 1961, Joan Baez, the dark-haired waif who had captured the spotlight at the first Newport Folk Festival just two years earlier, was folk music's virginal superstar, leading the coffeehouse culture of a new American generation. And an unknown, unwashed, Woody Guthrie—worshiping kid from the Minnesota suburbs named Bob Dylan had just arrived in Greenwich Village. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Positively 4th Street, DAVID HAJDU recalls the prickly beginnings of the Baez-Dylan relationship, the strange symbiosis between her voice and his music, and the triumphant, magi...

March for Peace was organised by two former gang members and Legacy Church.

When George W. Bush was running for president in 2000, he spoke to the NAACP's 91st annual convention where he coined the phrase "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

When George W. Bush was running for president in 2000, he spoke to the NAACP’s 91st annual convention, at which he coined the phrase “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

If a Black child is told, overtly or covertly, he or she cannot succeed in life, many will internalize that message. Some will use it as an excuse to engage in crime, including the looting of stores and even shootings as we constantly witness in some of our major cities. Others will simply give up, or drop out of school, dooming far too many to a life of failure and antisocial behavior.