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- Bettye LaVette's Journey To The National Stage
If you've never heard of Bettye LaVette, the soul singer who belted out "A Change Is Gonna Come" with Jon Bon Jovi at the Inauguration Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan 18., you may be wondering why.
Posted: 01/23/09
- Analyzing The Text Of Obama's Inaugural Address
Although many Americans heard Barack Obama's inauguration speech, they probably weren't listening for plyptotons and catachresis — but Geoff Nunberg was.
Posted: 01/23/09
- Natasha Trethewey: If My Mom Could See Us Now
Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book <em>Native Guard</em>. Her parents had an interracial marriage while it was still illegal in Mississippi, and Tretheway's poetry often draws on her childhood as a biracial child in the south.
Posted: 01/20/09
- Eric Foner On Post-Civil War Disappointments
Eric Foner, author of <em>Our Lincoln</em>, talks about the era following the Civil War in which former slaves were promised equal rights and citizenship. Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.
Posted: 01/20/09
- Spreading The Hope: Street Artist Shepard Fairey
Street artist Shepard Fairey created the iconic red, white and blue Obama illustration that became the unofficial poster of the campaign. Although his campaign poster never became official, Fairey has been commissioned to design the official poster for the inauguration.
Posted: 01/20/09
- Transcript: Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met," President Barack Obama said in his inaugural address.
Posted: 01/19/09
