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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
11/3/2020
Black Celebrities Have a Long History of Endorsing Republican Presidents
by Leah Wright-Rigeur
What may seem like a last-ditch effort to garner votes by the Trump campaign is in fact a well-worn political strategy designed to shield candidates from accusations of racism, while diverting attention away from individual candidates and their political administrations.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
10/23/2020
Malcolm X Warned Us about the Pitfalls of Black Celebrities as Leaders
by Kyle T. Mays
The media’s overemphasis on the voices of Black celebrities obscures the voices of ordinary Black people, whose lives are vastly different from those who have wealth and visibility.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/25/2020
How Baseball Players Became Celebrities
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, idols of the Golden Age of sports, brought stardom to America’s pastime.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/9/2020
The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic
National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al endures.
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SOURCE: Public Books
3/26/2020
Babe Ruth's New York @ 100
by Jonathan Goldman
When Babe Ruth started hitting home runs, the US started to change.
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SOURCE: NYT
5-20-13
George Packer: Celebrating Inequality
George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is the author, most recently, of “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.”THE Roaring ’20s was the decade when modern celebrity was invented in America. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby” is full of magazine spreads of tennis players and socialites, popular song lyrics, movie stars, paparazzi, gangsters and sports scandals — machine-made by technology, advertising and public relations. Gatsby, a mysterious bootlegger who makes a meteoric ascent from Midwestern obscurity to the palatial splendor of West Egg, exemplifies one part of the celebrity code: it’s inherently illicit. Fitzgerald intuited that, with the old restraining deities of the 19th century dead and his generation’s faith in man shaken by World War I, celebrities were the new household gods.
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