And while I was there, I was adopted into the nation by a wonderful couple, Hartford and Mary Black Eagle.

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He suggested a Hairy Mary, a scraggly black fly.

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Called "Sensation, " the show caused a stir when it moved to the Brooklyn Museum and then-New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani threatened to pull funding because of a piece by Chris Ofili, a British artist of Nigerian descent, that showed a black Virgin Mary on a canvas adorned with elephant dung.

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Mary Jane Anderson, a black woman who lived in an alley house behind the theatre, watched Booth lead his horse up the alley, walk past her front door, and call Ned Spangler.

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Eighteen years ago, John Sayles might have boiled down this back-to-basics portrait of a paralyzed, bitter white soap star (Mary McDonnell) and her strong-willed black caretaker (Alfre Woodard) into a twenty-page short story.

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Along with the stripes, Kors also showed mod, Mary Quant-esque coats and dresses in punchy blues, arresting yellows and abstracted black and white houndstooth.

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Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith were also arrested for refusing to give up their seats and were among five black women whose federal law suit led to the Supreme Court ruling that the segregation was unconstitutional.

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Cooper joins a growing cast for the next Spider-Man outing, including franchise newcomers Oscar winner Jamie Foxx as the villain Electro, Paul Giamatti as the Rhino, Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn (son of Norman Osborn), Shailene Woodley as Mary Jane Watson, and Felicity Jones as an unknown character (rumored to possibly be Felicia Hardy aka the Black Cat).

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