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...University in Waco, Texas, informs Othello’s artistic company that the audience of the play would have to be segregated according to Texas’s Jim Crow laws. The production’s artistic company refused to perform before segregated audiences, and so Othello did not tour Baylor University, or, in fact, any Southern city. Even in Northern cities, segregation was such a fact of life that Robeson, although a national star, had trouble finding hotel accommodations in some cities...
...Memphis, this meant that after a day spent at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, we jumped out of our hotel and into a cab, instructing the driver to take us to Beale Street. He obliged, and gave us a tour along the way. The city, like many Matt and Andrew visited, is in the process of trying to revitalize its downtown. Unlike many cities they visited, however, in Memphis the project actually seemed to be working...
...demolished and replaced with what detractors likened to a petrol station). But public support waned, and the plan was eventually scrapped. Instead, director Macgregor set about improving the existing building, turning around the museum's deficit, and widening its community outreach; for the first time this year, "Primavera" will tour the country when its Sydney season ends in November. "My philosophy has always been that a museum is much more than a building," Macgregor says. "The organization is about the relationship it builds beyond its walls...
...President used the last day of his three-day hurricane tour to slam home a point a point he's been making more subtly recently: The nation should consider using the military in a greatly expanded role at home to combat natural disasters. At a meeting with the military's Joint Task Force Rita in San Antonio Sunday morning Bush asked, "is there a natural disaster of a certain size that would enable the Defense Department to become the lead agency in coordinating and leading the response effort? That's going to be a very important consideration for Congress...
Coincidentally, the same Frenchman from the “Reverential Night” was in my tour group. He greeted me happily. I am sure that for moments he felt out of place, uncomfortable by the fact that he had to play the unfamiliar role of minority. However, he took as many pictures as possible and discussed the tour guide’s statements in detail. Most importantly, he understood that the centuries of injustice that took place in the Castle are his history as much as they are mine...