The Nation's Poor: A Story You Won't Hear This Week in Charlotte

The nation's poor: A story you won't hear this week in Charlotte

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In the 1930s, Billie Holiday sang, “Them that's got shall get, them that's not shall lose.” In the '60s …. He had to apply to the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles to have his military credentials transferred into something he could use to get a job in …
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Sparkle Is an Exciting Movie… Fun, Flawed and Moving!

Filed under: Billy Holiday drug abuse

And the new film is set in the Detroit of 1968, a period when I was getting deeply involved with singer Diana Ross and Motown record impresario Berry Gordy, her manager, in the pre-production of my film, Lady Sings The Blues, the Billie Holiday film …
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'Sparkle' Remake Is a Soul Fable For a New Generation

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… the original, "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks now) who has to mature as a performer and a woman when her older, wilder sibling, Sister (Lonette McKee then, Carmen Ejogo now), falls Billie Holiday-like victim to both abuse by men and drug …
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