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The resonance of racial violence across generations

In 1921 a mob of whites in Tulsa, Okla., descended upon a black-owned business district, burning it and murdering as many as 300 people. Contributor Kelefa Sanneh, of The New Yorker magazine, looks at a particularly heinous example from the ugly history of racism, and how it continued to color discussions of race in Tulsa for decades after. Source

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On Broadway: Keeping the lights on

COVID-19 has shuttered stages on the Great White Way, but there are some traditions in Broadway theaters that can’t be totally turned off. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with “Hadestown” star André De Shields, multiple Tony-winner Bernadette Peters, Broadway producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper, and Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley, the couple behind the “Stars In the House” web series, about how theater artists are coping with the shutdown by turning to a whole new stage. Source

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Passage: Remembering Christo

“Sunday Morning” looks back at the artist whose massive and eye-catching wrapped projects around the world changed the very fabric of what we call art Source

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Passage: Remembering the artist Christo

“Sunday Morning” marks the passing this week, at age 84, of Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, better known as Christo, the Bulgarian-born artist who was truly all wrapped up in his work. Teamed with his wife Jeanne-Claude, he became renowned for monumental, transformative and yet impermanent works of public art, wrapping buildings and landscapes with colorful fabric. Jane Pauley looks back at his free-spirited art. Source

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