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Have a listen to a full, rooftop performance of “The Power of Love” from Back to the Future – as the show celebrates the original film’s 40th anniversary.
On Jan. 31, 2015, when no one knew what tragedy lay ahead, Allen University held a grand opening celebration for its Langston Hughes Poetry Center and Library, which contains nearly 1,000 books.
Kwame Brown's career was only going to head two ways — either he'd live up to the potential of being picked first overall out of high school, or he wouldn't and become the poster child for failure.
The band was in fine form throughout the performance, playing with the same fervor that has made them such a live draw for the last fifteen years. Even when they returned to the stage and encored with ...
Kwame Dawes: It’s one of my great magic tricks. I was born in Ghana to a Jamaican father and a Ghanaian mother and when I was about eight years old, I moved to Jamaica. We all moved to Jamaica, so I ...
Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes began his three-year term as the fourth poet laureate of Jamaica in January, taking on a role that seeks to foster greater appreciation for Jamaican poetry and ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum for ...
PROVIDENCE — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University literary arts professor, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As part of his role, Dawes will be charged with “stimulating a greater ...
For Dawes, the first step was recording a cover of “I Love L.A.” themselves, without any special guests, on the day the group played the FireAid benefit last Thursday.
Dawes, with Brittany Howard, Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent, John Legend, and Brad Paisley, opened the 2025 Grammys with "I Love L.A." - Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images The first day of the Los Angeles ...
The L.A. band Dawes, whose members were seriously impacted by the Eaton fire, on what it meant to perform Newman's early-'80s classic.
Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow, John Legend, St. Vincent, Brittany Howard, Dawes Open Grammys With ‘I Love L.A.’ Randy Newman's 1983 hit has become an anthem for the city as it deals with the ...