West Virginia public schools closed despite deal that was to end strike
All West Virginia public schools remained closed Thursday as a weeklong teachers’ strike over pay and benefits continued. …read...
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Golden State Warriors swap White House visit for African-American history museum
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Supreme Court allows indefinite immigrant detentions
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‘Porgy’ and ‘Simon’: Two works trying to fold black experience into Western canon
By Anne Midgette World premiere of Margaret Bonds’s neglected cantata coincided with a performance of “Porgy and Bess.” …read...