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by Peter D. Kramer lohud.com “Hello, my name is Lachi. Like Versace,” says the woman in the fabulous dress and the beaming smile. Then the New York-based singer-songwriter takes more time than most people, to describe herself. She offers a visual self-description for blind people in her audience, saying she is a Black …
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by Melanie Peeples National Public Radio The Transportation Security Administration screened 30 million people over the recent Thanksgiving holiday. That’s a lot of suitcases for airlines to keep track of, and unfortunately, some are bound to get lost. So where does all that lost luggage end up? In a store called Unclaimed Baggage, in …
by Kevin Burton If the 60s were groovy, the 70s were nothing if not funky. The funk was everywhere then, beginning with music, first seeping then flowing into just about everything else. The funk was the soup we swam in. But I was a little surprised to see funky show up on …
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by Kevin Burton So you read the headline “uptown words” and your mind immediately goes to Uptown Girl, the Billy Joel song, right? One could take that song as a celebration of an uptown girl. I take it as the celebration of the virtues of a downtown man. “That’s what I am,” Joel …
by Kevin Burton I have never seen a picture of Buddy Holly without his thick glasses, but I never have pondered whether he was legally blind until now. He probably was not, by the way, though he had poor vision. More about that in a bit. This comes up today on the …
by Kevin Burton If your workplace observes casual Friday, one thing you might be reaching for today is your favorite pair of jeans. They are commonly called blue jeans, though some of them are not blue. I own one black pair that I rarely wear. Approximately 450 million pairs of jeans are …
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