In the 1960s, Mardi Gras Indians were largely unknown outside working-class African-American neighborhoods and bars. A teenager and budding New Orleans music enthusiast named Quint Davis was one of the few white people who attended the White Eagles' practices at Barrows and Sons Lounge downtown. |
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PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT... ... PRESIDENT AQUINO KISSING POPE’S RING: Not only did the President kiss Pope Francis’s ring when he arrived in Malacañang, he bowed his head when he did it. No, he didn’t kneel but he also didn’t raise the pontiff’s hand to his lips. |
If you haven't already seen Selma, the new movie about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the fight for voting rights, do it tonight or tomorrow. It's a great film -- one of the best I've seen in a long time -- and it does a great job of showing why all successful social movements start from the bottom up. |
Wednesday 21st January, 2015. Manila - Philippine police arrested three people for cracking jokes about a bomb while on their way to attend Pope Francis's mass in Manila, an official said on Tuesday. The man and two women were arrested at a police checkpoint on Sunday while heading to the mass in.... |
Today's Oscar nominations dominated traffic on Twitter with a verbal slip and a notable omission from the short-lists high on the agenda.
Cinematographer Dick Pope - nominated for his work on Mike Leigh's Mr Turner - inadvertently became an online sensation when Academy president Cheryl Boone.... |
A day before the pope’s arrival, Tagle said in a television interview that the papal visit was a chance for the church’s leader to see the joy and resilience of Filipinos. He said he hoped the pope would be inspired by the hopefulness of simple, poor, and suffering people. “I hope he would also be inspired. |
Posted on on January 20, 2015, 8:17AM. West Bank Community News St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church was filled to capacity for the 29th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mass Celebration in Marrero. The theme was "People Expressing a Christ-like Environment (PEACE)." The Rev. |
MANILA // Philippine police arrested three people for cracking jokes about a bomb while on their way to attend Pope Francis’s mass in Manila. A man and two women were arrested at a police checkpoint on Sunday s they were heading to the mass in Rizal Park, said officer Alberto de Guzman of Manila police radio control office on Tuesday. |
MANILA - The priest who served as emcee before and after the papal mass at the Quirino Grandstand in Luneta last Sunday has apologized for supposedly destroying the solemnity of the event. Fr. Hans Magdurulang, who led the world-record crowd in cheering Pope Francis, has received flak online for supposedly making a "
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Call comes days after five foreigners executed in Indonesia despite international pleas for a last minute reprieve.
MELBOURNE. Australia's prime minister has repeated calls for clemency to be shown to two Australians facing the death penalty in Indonesia, where six drug offenders were killed by firing squads over the weekend. |
Manila: Philippine police arrested three people for cracking jokes about a bomb while on their way to attend Pope Francis’s mass in Manila, an official said on Tuesday. The man and two women were arrested at a police checkpoint on Sunday while heading to the mass in Rizal Park which attracted a.... |
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