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☆ Barbara Taylor Bradford, ‘A Woman of Substance’ Novelist, Dies at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Barbara Taylor Bradford, one of the world’s best-selling romance novelists, who captivated readers for decades with chronicles of buried secrets, raging ambitions and strong women of humble origins rising to wealth and power, died Sunday. She was 91. She died after a short illness, her publisher, HarperCollins, said on Monday. Beginning with the runaway success of her 1979 debut novel, “A Woman of Substance,” Ms. Bradford’s 40 works of fiction sold more than 90 million copies in 40 languages and were all best sellers on both sides of the Atlantic, according to publishers’ reports. This is a developing story.

Persons: Barbara Taylor Bradford, Ms, Bradford’s Organizations: HarperCollins

☆ California touted reparations push, but advocates say new policies fall short
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Michela Moscufo | Michela Moscufo Is A Freelance Journalist Based In New York. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Members of the California Legislative Black Caucus heralded his signature on four bills, including an apology for the state’s role in promoting slavery. In his remarks, Newsom said the bill could not function without the accompanying Freedmen Affairs Agency, which would have been established by another one of Bradford’s bills. The centerpiece of Bradford’s reparations package was the Freedmen Affairs Agency, which would have overseen state reparations initiatives. By the final hours of the legislative session, dozens of protesters had gathered in the lobby of the Capitol to support Bradford’s bills. Jeff Chiu / AP fileOrganizer Chris Lodgson was another community leader who went to the Capitol to lobby for Bradford’s bills.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, —, Sen, Steven A, Bradford, Newsom, “, ”, Kamilah Moore, Steven Bradford, Reginald Jones, Sawyer, Jeff Chiu, Assemblymember Lori Wilson, Tayfun, Moore, Chris Lodgson, H.R, Sheila Jackson Lee, “ It’s Organizations: California Legislative Black Caucus, Task Force, California Senate, Assembly, Freedmen Affairs Agency, Black Caucus, Force, Black Caucus . California Gov, Getty, Bradford, Capitol, Task, Coalition, Equitable, Congressional Black Caucus, Washington , D.C, National, U.S . Rep Locations: California, Oakland, Calif, San Francisco, Anadolu, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Equitable California, Washington ,, New York, Illinois

☆ Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to help Black families reclaim land for being 'impossible to implement'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have helped Black families reclaim or be compensated for property that was unjustly taken by the government. The proposal by itself would not have been able to take full effect because lawmakers blocked another bill to create a reparations agency that would have reviewed claims. The California Legislative Black Caucus has backed a series of reparations packages in the state. The caucus cited concerns that the Legislature would not have oversight over the agency’s operations and declined to comment further on the reparations fund bill because it wasn’t part of the caucus’ reparations priority package. The administration’s Department of Finance said earlier this year it opposed the eminent domain bill because it was not specifically included in the budget.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, “, ” Newsom, Carolyn Cole, Sen, Steven Bradford, Bradford, ” Bradford, Newsom Organizations: —, California Legislative Black Caucus, Black Americans, Los Angeles Times, Getty, California State University, Associated Press, administration’s Department of Finance Locations: SACRAMENTO, Calif, — California, California, Los Angeles

☆ Mark Bradford Strikes a Pose of Quiet Self-Reflection
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( John Vincler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mark Bradford found his way to becoming an artist while working in his mother’s beauty shop. The Los Angeles-born artist used layers of the cheap end papers — thin delicate sheets used to protect hair from burning during perming — instead of paint in the early works that would soon earn him an international reputation, eventually leading to the official United States pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, his most important exhibition to date. Nearly 40 when Thelma Golden selected him to participate in her landmark 2001 “Freestyle” exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, featuring mostly young Black artists embracing abstraction and challenging dogmas of representation, he has emerged as one of America’s greatest living painters. Yet, technically speaking, he continues to use paper rather than paint as his primary medium. In “You Don’t Have to Tell Me Twice,” Bradford’s works take over the entirety of Hauser & Wirth’s five-story Chelsea flagship, his first New York solo exhibition since 2015, showing a dozen paintings alongside two works that set the mood, a sculpture and a video piece that find the artist taking stock and assessing his own meteoric rise.

Persons: Mark Bradford, —, Thelma Golden Organizations: Studio Museum, Hauser, Chelsea, New York Locations: Los Angeles, United States, Venice, Harlem

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