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Bettye LaVette’s Journey To The National Stage
Fri Jan 23 17:46:00 EST 2009
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.

Analyzing The Text Of Obama’s Inaugural Address
Fri Jan 23 09:10:00 EST 2009
Although many Americans heard Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, they probably weren’t listening for plyptotons and catachresis — but Geoff Nunberg was.

Natasha Trethewey: If My Mom Could See Us Now
Tue Jan 20 15:24:00 EST 2009
Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book Native Guard. 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.

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