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The pool table that shaped Martin Luther King Jr. as a seminary student in Pennsylvania now has a new home in Rochester.

Marian Anderson sings for the Empress of Japan in 1953 May 4 06:40 am JST May 4 | 10:24 am JST On April 18, 1953, Bob Krauss, writing for the Honolulu Advertiser, attended a Marian Anderson concert. Tickets had been sold out for weeks, and as Krauss listened to Anderson, a contralto, he couldn’t help but become spellbound as she sang. “What you notice first are her eyes. They’re like windows you can look through into the place her music comes from. They can sparkle and they can be coy but usually, to me anyway, they reflected an understanding of suffering…” For Krauss...

When Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and a Presidential Election Converged on Notre Dame In One Week in America, Patrick Parr guides readers through several earth-shattering events and their impact on the 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival. One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation Patrick Parr March 2021 1968 was a turbulent year in the United States. The Cold War and the nuclear arms race were ever-present, the hard battle of civil rights activists against racism continued, and opposition to the war in Vietnam reached far and wide.  In One Week in Ame...

Arthur O'Keefe Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe was born in New York and lives in Japan. His debut novel The Spirit Phone -- forthcoming from BHC Press -- depicts the confrontation of Aleister Crowley and Nikola Tesla with the enigma of Thomas Edison's new invention: a phone to communicate with the dead. His short story "A Spirited Conversation," based upon The Spirit Phone, will be published in Suspense Magazine (TBA) and the Fall / Winter 2021 issue of The Stray Branch. His short fiction has also appeared in Manawaker Studio and Flash Fiction Magazine. He has contributed articles to PopMatters, The ...

Robert Kennedy confronts communist hecklers at Waseda University in 1962 Mar. 2 06:30 am JST Mar. 2 | 08:52 pm JST TOKYO On Feb. 4, 1962, 36-year-old U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel stepped off their plane at Haneda International Airport, the start of a six-day trip. During their flight, they’d practiced a welcome speech in Japanese, tutored by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer, who spoke fluent Japanese and had studied the country intensively over the years — his book on Japanese history informing Eleanor Roosevelt’s trip to Japa...