My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields.

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From this vantage, it might not seem so wise to keep waving the Confederate flag and pretending there is no difference between singing Dixie and We Shall Overcome.

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"The Voice" also has increased the number of contestants this season, and it plans to introduce a button that singing coaches can hit to keep contestants alive, even after they have been eliminated by another team.

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