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texts: and it was recorded on 2013 Grammy Awards night. On June 15, Epps announced the title of his second album would be B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time. The album was released on Def Jam Recordings on September 10, 2013.B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time featured guest appearances from Pharrell Williams, Fergie, Drake, Lil Wayne, Pusha T, Mase, Chrisette Michele, Iamsu!, T-Pain, Dolla Boy, Rich Homie Quan, and Lloyd among others. The album's production was handled by Diplo, Mike WiLL Made It, Drumma Boy, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Mannie Fresh, Wonder Arillo, Da Honorable C-Note and DJ Toomp among others. It was also supported by the single "Used 2," along with the promotional singles "Where U Been?" and "Netflix." Upon the album's release, it was met with generally positive reviews from music critics.It also faired decently commercially, debuting at number three on the US Billboard 200, and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart selling 63,000 copies in its first week. On October 23, 2013, Epps revealed that he had begun working on his third studio album immediately following the release of B.O.A.T.S. II. He also stated he had the first single from his third album ready for release and that he still wanted to get Jay-Z featured on the album. In November 2015, <mask> Chainz revealed that he was releasing a joint album with Lil Wayne, titled ColleGrove. On May 5, 2014, Epps released a brand new EP titled FreeBase for free digital download. It included seven songs and included features from Lil


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On January 27, 2016, Epps released an EP titled "Felt Like Cappin". It was released via online streaming sites and iTunes. The EP was promoted by the single "Back On That Bullshit" featuring Lil Wayne. Epps began 2016 with the March release of a 12-record collaborative album with rapper Lil Wayne titled ColleGrove, which was intended to be the debut album between <mask>z and Lil Wayne. However, Wayne's ongoing lawsuit with Cash Money Records prevented Wayne from being a primary artist on the album.Epps appears as the primary artist on the album with eight tracks featuring Lil Wayne. The album features prominent producers such as Honorable C.N.O.T.E., Mike Will Made It, Zaytoven, TM88, Metro Boomin, London on da Track, and more. ColleGrove received decent reviews from critics and fans. Epps continued his work in 2016 with the August 5 release of mixtape Daniel Son: Necklace Don, a 9-track mixtape that Epps released independently. The mixtape originally featured Drake and YFN Lucci on it, but Epps chose to move the song "Big Amount ft. Drake" to the 2017 studio album Pretty Girls Like Trap Music because of its mass appeal on the mixtape and star power performance. Daniel Son: Necklace Don received a 3-out-of-5-star review from XXL magazine. 2016 was wrapped up by


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 offered a unique insight into products and services that have been created with the explicit intent on being exclusive and expensive. <mask>z offered a unique and often humorous insight into the products, especially the ones that he personally found to be either amazing or ridiculous. The show was renewed for a 20-episode third season, which aired in early 2019. The Play Don't Care Who Makes was the fourth EP released by Epps on February 8, 2018, by Def Jam Recordings. The EP was composed of four songs, one of which featured appearances from YG and Offset on the song "PROUD". Production was done by Minus, June James, Nonstop, Streetrunner, and more. On February 19, 2018, Epps announced his new album Rap or Go to the League, which was set to be released during 2018.However, the album was released on March 1, 2019. On March 26, 2020, 2 Chainz confirmed that ColleGrove 2, a sequel of 2016's ColleGrove, would be released later in 2020. 2020–present: So Help Me God and Dope Don't Sell Itself
In August 2020, following his Verzuz battle with Rick Ross, <mask> Chainz announced that his upcoming sixth album would be titled So Help Me God!. The album was initially scheduled for release on September 25, 2020. However, in the week of its planned release, it was delayed because of sample clearances. 2 Chainz said, "It should be another couple weeks". It was then announced for release on November 13, 2020, and was preceded by the release of the single "Quarantine Thick", which featured


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<mask> (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker. Life
Born <mask> in New York City, she was the daughter of a Polish-immigrant father who made his fortune in manufacturing. Her mother was the daughter of a multimillionaire Jewish manufacturer and inventor. The eldest of three daughters, her sister was the writer Elaine Dundy. Her interest in dance began at an early age, but met with the disapproval of her father, a violent bully. <mask> attended Stephens College, Johns Hopkins University, Bennington College, and University of North Carolina. As a result of dance lessons at each of these schools, she trained under the Martha Graham technique, the Humphrey-Weidman technique, and the Hanya Holm method of modern dance.She married <mask> to escape her father's control, so she could study dance under the masters in New York City. Their daughter Wendy was born in 1944. Her marriage to Bert ended in divorce in 1963. She began her career as a dancer in the New York avant garde modern dance movement. She was an avid participant in dance lessons and performances at the Young Women's Hebrew Association. In 1972, <mask> was a signatory to a campaign of Ms magazine, “We Have Had Abortions”, which called for an end to "archaic laws" limiting reproductive freedom; the participants encouraged women to share their stories and take action. Short films
In her first film, Dance in the Sun (1953), she adapted a choreography of Daniel Nagrin.The New York Dance Film Society selected it as the best dance film of the year. In  Dance in the Sun (1953), <mask> made use of rhythmic shots, shooting a dance on stage and then cutting from the stage to the beach and back and forth throughout the film. She crossed over from being a dancer, to being a filmmaker and expressing her art through a new medium. <mask> studied filmmaking with Hans Richter at the City College of New York after making In Paris Parks (1954). In 1955, she became a member of the Independent Filmmakers of America and was part of a circle of independent filmmakers in Greenwich Village such as Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Jonas

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 Mekas, and Lionel Rogosin. In A Moment in Love, <mask> used abstract line and color to capture pure dance. <mask>'s film Bridges Go-Round (1959) is a major example of abstract expressionism in film, with two alternative soundtracks, one with electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron and the other is jazz orientated and was created by Teo Macero.She used the camera to create a sense of motion while filming inanimate structures. She received an Academy Award nomination for Skyscraper (1959) with two other documentary filmmakers. Mainly shot in 1958, the short film captures the construction of 666 Fifth Avenue that began in 1957. The 20-minute film includes shots of the Roxy Theatre which was demolished the year Skyscraper was released. In 1959, it won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. A Scary Time (1960), showing poverty and disease among children in Third World nations, was produced by UNICEF in consultation with Thorold Dickinson. It features music by Peggy Glanville-Hicks.Features released in the 1960s
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In 1962, she described, her objectives: "I'm revolting against the conventions of movies. Who says a film has to cost a million dollars and be safe and innocuous enough to satisfy every 12-year-old in America?" The Connection
Her first feature film The Connection (1961), from the play by Jack Gelber, concerns heroin-addicted jazz musicians, was part of the emergence of a New York independent feature film movement. The film heralded a new style addressing relevant social issues in black-and-white low-budget films. <mask> intended the film to be used as a test case in a successful fight to abolish New York State's censorship rules. It also served as a commentary on the failures of cinema verité. It is meant to appear to document the spontaneous interactions of a contemporary, specific lifestyle (Bohemian New York of the early 1960s).The Connection generated controversy and discussion in the downtown New York City arts community. The original play by Jack Gelber had been condemned by

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 mainstream critics during its performances off-Broadway, but had still drawn an audience that included "Leonard Bernstein, Anita Loos, Salvador Dalí and Lillian Hellman, who likened it to 'a fine time at the circus'". <mask> was determined to film the play, and once completed, it received favorable reviews. It was screened out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961, where again it was received positively. American Beat generation celebrities who were in Europe at the time traveled to Cannes to show support for <mask>'s film. Screenings of The Connection in New York State were subsequently banned following complaints alleging indecency, based on a shot that included a pornographic magazine and a word deemed obscene. At the time, New York State only permitted films to be publicly screened if they had received a license from the State's board of censors.Another attempt was made to publicly screen the film a year later, only for the police to intervene, as the filmmakers still did not have a license from the State's board of censors. Following these incidents, critical reviews of The Connection became predominantly negative. The situation made it difficult for <mask> to organize funding and distribution for her film projects. While filming The Connection, she fell in love with actor Carl Lee. Following her divorce from <mask>, she began a relationship with Lee that lasted until his death in 1986 from AIDS, which he had contracted from his use of a dirty hypodermic needle. Later in the decade
In 1961, <mask> signed the manifesto "Statement for a New American Cinema", and in 1962, she co-founded The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York with Jonas Mekas. Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World (1963), directed by <mask> and starring the poet Robert Frost, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature.Based on a novel by Warren Miller, <mask>'s  feature, The Cool World (1964), followed the life of a young man who rose to be the leader of a juvenile gang. The first movie to dramatize a story on black street gangs without relying upon Hollywood-style moralizing, it was shot on location in

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In the 1970s and early 1980s, <mask> experimented with live video performance, returning to her roots as a dancer. She formed The TeePee Video Space Troupe at her Hotel Chelsea penthouse. This group included video artists Andy Gurian, Bruce Ferguson, Stephanie Palewski, DeeDee Halleck, Vickie Polan, Shrider Bapat, <mask>'s daughter <mask>, and many others.The Troupe were also early experimenters with taped video performance, installation and documentation. After working on video films for several years at the Hotel Chelsea, <mask> was approached by Roger Corman to work on his next film Crazy Mama (1975). This sparked disagreements over creative approaches. <mask> realized that Corman was expecting a protègé without film experience. In a 1985 interview, <mask> stated that she did not believe the situation would have occurred had she been a male filmmaker:

From time to time, members of the pioneering video collective Videofreex were part of the Troupe: David Cort, Parry Teasdale, Chuck Kennedy, Skip Blumberg, Bart Freidman, and Nancy Cain. The troupe worked in and around the Hotel Chelsea on West 23rd St in

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In addition to directing her own films, <mask> played an independent filmmaker in the cinéma vérité-style comedy Lions Love (1969) by Agnès Varda. <mask> also appears briefly in the documentary He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) by Jonas Mekas. <mask>'s legs appeared in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1971 film Up Your Legs Forever. <mask> lectured regularly, speaking at theaters and museums. During the period between 1971 and 1974, <mask> led number of Teepee touring workshops in a variety of venues and institutions including the Kitchen, the Museum of Modern art ('Open Circuits'), Antioch College, Baltimore, Wesleyan College, Bucknell University, Film Study Center, Hampshire College and the University of Buffalo.<mask> became a professor at UCLA in 1975, teaching film and video until 1983. Death and legacy
<mask> died of a stroke in Boston, Massachusetts after a struggle with Alzheimer's disease, shortly before her 78th birthday. The only full-length feature to receive wide media coverage during <mask>'s lifetime was The Connection. It was not her only film to subject to bans by New York State censors, or distribution challenges posed by the lack of infrastructure for independent filmmakers. <mask>'s reputation languished for many years, during a period when she was "marginalized, written out of histories and dismissed as a dilettante". There has been renewed interest in her filmmaking, however. The first Shirley Clarke Avant-Garde Filmmaker Award was presented

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 to Barbara Hammer in October 2006.Thomas Cohen, in a 2012 book discussing her career, described her features as "films considered essential works of New American Cinema". From 2012 onwards, Milestone Films undertook "Project Shirley", an in-depth, eight-year project to release restored versions of many of <mask>'s films on DVD and Blu-ray, preceded by limited theatrical runs. This encompassed Ornette: Made in America (Volume 1, November 11, 2014), Portrait of Jason (Volume 2, November 11, 2014), The Connection (Volume 3, February 24, 2015) and The Magic Box: The Films of <mask>. 1927-1986 (Volume 4, November 15, 2016). Filmography
A Dance in the Sun (1953)
In Paris Parks (1954)
Bullfight (1955)
A Moment in Love (1957)
Brussels "Loops (1958)
Bridges-Go-Round (1958)
Skyscraper (1959) with Willard Van Dyke and Irving Jacoby
A Scary Time (1960)
The Connection (1961)
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963)
The Cool World (1963)
Portrait of Jason (1967)
Man in Polar Regions (1967)
Trans (1978)
One Two Three (1978)
Mysterium; Initiation (1978)
Savage/Love (1981)
Tongues (1982)
Ornette: Made in America (1985)

See also
 Experimental film
 New American Cinema
 Women's cinema
 List of female film and television directors
 List of LGBT-related films directed by women

References

External links

<mask> Papers at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. <mask> datebook, 1955-1956, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Article by Andy Gurian
Interview with <mask> by DeeDee Halleck
A profile of <mask> by Sophia Satchell Baeza for Sight & Sound [October 2019]
Village Voice article
Remembering <mask> Clarke by DeeDee Halleck
<mask>: A Retrospective - Edinburgh Film Festival TV
"A Conversation", <mask> Clarke and Storm de Hirsch, Film Culture Issue 46 (Autumn 1967)

1919 births
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American women film directors
American experimental filmmakers
20th-century American Jews
American people of Polish descent
Stephens College alumni
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<mask> (born August 16, 1983) is a Mexican author living in the United States. She is the author of the book of essays Sidewalks and the novel Faces in the Crowd, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. <mask>'s 2015 novel The Story of My Teeth was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Best Translated Book Award, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Fiction, and she was awarded the Premio Metropolis Azul in Montreal, Quebec. <mask>'s books have been translated into more than 20 languages, with her work appearing in publications including, The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New Yorker. Her most recent book, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. <mask>'s 2020 novel, Lost Children Archive won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. In 2014, <mask> was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award.In 2019, she won a MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a MacArthur "Genius Grant". In 2020, the Vilcek Foundation awarded her a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature and the Folio Prize. <mask> is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue. Career

After earning a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, <mask> moved to New York City to dance. She eventually studied comparative literature at Columbia University, where she completed a Ph.D. She teaches literature and creative writing at Bard College, collaborates as a writer with a number of art galleries, and has worked as a librettist for the New York City Ballet. She served as a juror for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2016. Several of <mask>'s books are based in real-world experiences.The Story of My Teeth (2015) was first written in serial for workers in a Jumex juice factory in Mexico as part of a

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 commission from Galería Jumex. Her nonfiction work Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (2017) is based on her experiences volunteering as an interpreter for young Central American migrants seeking legal status in the United States. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism in 2017. Her work with asylum-seeking children from Latin America also informs the central theme in her 2019 novel Lost Children Archive. Personal life
<mask> was born in Mexico City, and moved to Madison, Wisconsin, with her family at the age of two. Her father's work in NGOs and later as a diplomat moved the family to Costa Rica, South Korea, and South Africa. After her parents separated, she moved to Mexico City with her mother at the age of 16.<mask> attended UWC Mahindra College in India and then returned to Mexico to attend university. She enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico to study philosophy, and then lived in Spain and France. <mask> first came to New York to study contemporary dance and worked as an intern at the United Nations, and later studied a PhD in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She currently lives in the Bronx with her family. Political involvement
<mask> started a literacy program for girls in a detention center in upstate New York that focuses on creative writing. <mask> is passionate about researching and writing about mass incarceration in the United States, with a focus on detention centers. She is working on a performance piece with the poet Natalie Diaz related to mass incarceration and violence against women.<mask> has been interested in writing about and working to improve the plight of asylum-seeking children from Latin America, a theme that is present in her 2020 novel, Lost Children Archive. She began writing Lost Children Archive in 2014 "as a loudspeaker for all of [her] political rage" after having served as a court translator for children from

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 Latin America involved in the migration crisis. The creation of this book was also a reaction to her daughter working to understand the migration crisis for herself. Before completing Lost Children Archive in 2019, <mask> published Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions that uses the format of the questions she used in the court when interviewing the children, and includes her own experience with applying for a green card. The time spent writing the essay allowed her to write Lost Children Archive with “more open questions and open ends instead of political stances that are too loud and obvious by themselves.”

Works

Sidewalks
Sidewalks is <mask>'s debut book of essays in which she explores themes of motion, travel, transition, and reflection. Faces in the Crowd (Los ingrávidos)
Faces in the Crowd (2011) is a triptych that follows the perspectives of the narrator, a young mother living and working as a translator in New York, the protagonist of that mother's semi-autobiographical novel, and Gilberto Owen, a 20th-century Mexican poet. These three perspectives are woven together throughout the story.The Story of My Teeth
<mask>'s second novel, The Story of My Teeth, tells the story of Gustavo (Highway) Sánchez Sánchez, an auctioneer who claims to sell the teeth of authors and historical figures, and uses the money to purchase the supposed teeth of Marilyn Monroe to replace his own. The Story of My Teeth was written in chapters and distributed to the workers of a juice factory in Mexico. The workers read the chapters out loud and provided comments on them, which <mask> recorded and took into consideration as she wrote the next chapter. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
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Her fifth novel, this is the first to be written in English. She said she used it as a loudspeaker for all of her political rage regarding the migration crisis.Lost Children Archive follows a mother, father, and their two children on their journey driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. On the way, they learn about the immigration crisis and learn that they may soon be in a crisis of their own. Awards
 2018 American Book Award for Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
 2019 MacArthur Fellowship
 2020 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature, Vilcek Foundation
2020 Folio Prize
2021 International Dublin Literary Award

Bibliography
 Papeles falsos (Sexto Piso, 2010). Translated by Christina MacSweeney as Sidewalks (2014)
 Los ingrávidos (Sexto Piso, 2010). Translated by Christina MacSweeney as Faces in the Crowd (2011)
 "Swings of Harlem", published in Where You Are: A Collection of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost (2013)
 La historia de mis dientes (2013). Translated by Christina MacSweeney as The Story of My Teeth (2015)
 Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (2016)
 Lost Children Archive (2019). Also translated into Spanish by the author and Daniel Saldaña París as Desierto sonoro (2019)

References

Further reading

External links

Interview with Jennifer Kabat in Bomb Magazine
RCW Website
<mask> <mask> recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division's audio literary archive in 2015

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Mexican women novelists
Writers from Mexico City
Columbia University alumni
National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
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21st-century Mexican women writers
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<mask> was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was a highly sought-after two-sport athlete in the country following his senior season at Southern University Laboratory School in Baton Rouge. On the high school football field, he was rated as the No. 1 tight end prospect in America and the third-best overall prospect after earning high school All-America honors.He was named first-team Class 1A all-state selection on both offense and defense following his senior season, becoming the first player to be honored on both in Louisiana since 1991. He finished his final prep season with 28 receptions for 435 yards and three touchdowns and 245 rushing yards and six touchdowns on offense and 22 tackles for losses, 11.5 quarterback sacks and four fumble recoveries on defense. <mask> was also one of the nation's top basketball prospects. He played in the first ever U.S. Army All-American Bowl game on December 30, 2000. College career
<mask> attended Louisiana State University, where he played for coach Nick Saban's LSU Tigers football team from 2001 to 2004. He was initially recruited by LSU as a tight end, but was soon moved to the defensive line. <mask> played tight end, fullback and defensive end as a freshman in 2001, recording two catches for 20 yards on offense and eight tackles, a sack and a tackle for loss on defense.His play earned him freshman All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) honors as a tight end. The 2002 season marked his first as a

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 full-time defensive player, in which he recorded 46 tackles, 16 quarterback pressures, 3.5 tackles for losses and three sacks. In 2003, during LSU's national championship season, <mask> contributed 49 tackles, 23 quarterback pressures, 13 tackles for losses, six sacks and six passes defensed to earn First-team All-SEC honors. Playing against the Oklahoma Sooners for the national championship in the Sugar Bowl, <mask> returned an interception 20 yards for a touchdown to give the Tigers a 21–7 advantage in their 21–14 victory. During his 2004 senior season, <mask> put together a career year, earning first-team All-America honors from the Walter Camp Foundation, American Football Coaches Association, and AP, and second-team All-America honors from Sports Illustrated, first-team All-SEC honors, and was a semifinalist for the Bednarik Award and Lombardi Award. He finished the year tying his career-high in tackles (49) while setting career-highs for tackles for losses (17) and sacks (nine, a figure that ranks fourth in the LSU single-season records). He also recorded 21 quarterback pressures to help the Tigers finish the year third in the country in total defense.In April 2021, <mask> was inducted into the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. Professional career

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texts: 2005 as a rookie, He sprained his right knee and ankle while straining his calf.What could have been a serious injury was only a minor setback for him. He missed the first three preseason games but bounced back in time for the final preseason game and recorded three tackles and a sack. He started the season as a backup in the team's 4-3 defense and eased into a right defensive end starting role midway through the season, to earn All-Rookie honors from Pro Football Weekly. His 35 tackles were good for 12th on the team - third among linemen and rookies while his six quarterback pressures were fourth. He added 1.5 sacks and a pass defensed. In his NFL debut at the San Diego Chargers, <mask> was in the defensive line rotation but did not record a tackle. He recorded his first sack - one he split with Greg Ellis - and his first career tackle against the Washington Redskins.<mask> then led all defensive linemen with four tackles at the San Francisco 49ers. He helped limit the Philadelphia Eagles to 129 yards, including just 19 rushing, the fourth lowest in franchise history. <mask> earned his first NFL start at defensive end at the Seattle Seahawks and responded with three tackles and a batted pass while helping limit Shaun Alexander, the NFL's leading rusher to 21 carries for 61 yards (2.9 avg.). He officially moved into the starting lineup full-time against the Arizona Cardinals and led all linemen with four tackles. <mask> logged his third career start in Philadelphia and posted a season-high seven tackles to lead all linemen and finish second on the team. He had a three-tackle game at the New York Giants. Against the Kansas City Chiefs, <mask> recorded four and a fumble recovery.With 1:16 remaining in the first half and Dallas trailing 14–10, <mask> scooped up a Trent Green fumble at the Cowboys 15-yard line and returned it 59 yards to the Chiefs 26-yard

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 line. It was the eighth-longest return in franchise history and the longest ever by a Dallas rookie. Three plays later, Drew Bledsoe completed a pass to Jason Witten for a touchdown and a 17-14 halftime lead. In Washington, <mask> recorded three tackles. In the season finale against the St. Louis Rams, he recorded two tackles and his first solo sack of the season. 2006
Before the 2006 season, <mask> underwent minor knee surgery to repair meniscus damage, which forced him to miss the first two weeks of training camp. The Cowboys moved to a 3-4 defense and <mask> earned the starting role at left defensive end, finishing ninth with 48 tackles (31 solo), one sack, three pass deflections, two tackles for loss and tied for fifth on the squad with three quarterback pressures.In the season opener at the Jacksonville Jaguars, <mask> had two tackles and a tackle for loss. In Week two's Sunday night game against the Redskins, <mask> recorded his only sack of the season, sacking quarterback Mark Brunell in the first quarter, he also recorded two tackles. After the Cowboys' bye week, <mask> led all defensive linemen with four tackles against the Tennessee Titans. The Titans, in rookie quarterback Vince Young first career start, only rushed 27 times for 78 yards. <mask> recorded two tackles the next week in Philadelphia, where he also broke up a pass at the line of scrimmage. Against the Houston Texans, <mask> recorded three tackles and a quarterback pressure. He recorded three tackles against the Giants in a Monday night loss at Texas Stadium.At the Carolina Panthers, in a Sunday night victory, <mask> had two more tackles and a quarterback pressure. He had five tackles the following week in Washington, followed by four tackles in Arizona. Against the eventual Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts, <mask> had three tackles and one for loss, limiting the Colts to a

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 season-low 14 points. In the annual Thanksgiving Day game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he had three tackles. He had two tackles in the Cowboys' 23–20 win over the Giants at the Meadowlands. The following week <mask> recorded a season-high six tackles against the Saints in a home loss. He recorded four tackles in a road win against the Atlanta Falcons, helping provide pressure on the defensive line that sacked Falcons quarterback Michael Vick four times.<mask> had three tackles in the Cowboys' Christmas Day loss to the Eagles and did not record a stat in the season finale against the Detroit Lions. In his postseason debut, <mask> had one tackle and led the team with two quarterback pressures against the Seahawks. 2007
In 2007, he appeared in all 16 regular season game and Dallas' lone post season game. For the season <mask> recorded 32 tackles (19 solo), two forced fumbles, and a career-high two sacks and three passed defensed on the season. In the season opener against the New York Giants, <mask> recorded one tackle (one solo). During week two at the Miami Dolphins, he recorded two tackles (two solo). In the week three victory over the Chicago Bears, <mask> recorded two tackles (one solo).During the week four victory over the St. Louis Rams, he recorded two tackles (one solo), and 0.5 sack. In week five at the Buffalo Bills, <mask> recorded two tackles (one solo). During the Cowboys first loss of the season, to the New England Patriots, he recorded four tackles. In the week seven win over the Minnesota Vikings, <mask> did not record any stats. During week nine at the Philadelphia Eagles, he recorded one tackle and 0.5 sacks and a forced fumble. In the week 10 win over the New York Giants, <mask> recorded two tackles (two solo). During the week 11 win over the Washington Redskins, he recorded one tackle.In the week 12 victory over the New York Jets,

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 <mask> recorded two tackles and one pass defensed. During the week 13 victory over the Green Bay Packers, he recorded one tackle, and a pass defensed. In the week 14 win over the Detroit Lions, <mask> recorded one tackle. During a week 15 loss to the Eagles, he recorded three tackles (two solo). In a week 16 victory over the Carolina Panthers, <mask> recorded one tackle and one pass defensed. During the season finale against the Washington Redskins, he recorded a season high five tackles (four solo), one sack, and one forced fumble. In the Cowboys lone playoff game against eventual Super Bowl XLII champion New York Giants, <mask> recorded two tackles.2008
<mask> started 15 games of the 16 games he played in the 2008 season. He registered 35 tackles (with 23 being solo, and 12 being assisted tackles), a sack, and a forced fumble. 2009
In 2009, he started 14 games and recorded 50 tackles (2 for losses), a career-high 2.5 sacks and a career-high tying 16 quarterback pressures and 2 pass breakups. <mask> played a key role in the playoffs, registering a tackle and three pressures in the wildcard playoff win against the Philadelphia Eagles, as the defense did not allow a rushing first down for the first time in postseason team history. He had a postseason career-high six tackles and a pressure in the divisional game against the Minnesota Vikings. 2010
After playing in only eight games (7 starts), his streak of 88 consecutive games played ended on November 10, when he was placed on the injured reserve list, with a left calf injury. Playing mostly in running downs, he registered 24 tackles (1 for loss) and 3 quarterback pressures.2011
<mask> signed a 5-year, $19.2 million contract during the off-season. He injured his groin in the second preseason game and missed the rest of the preseason. New defensive coordinator Rob Ryan selected Kenyon Coleman and Jason

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 Hatcher as the starters at defensive end, relegating <mask> into a reserve role for the first time in his career. He was used mostly on running downs and registered 29 tackles (one for loss), 15th on the team and fifth among defensive linemen, one sack, two pass deflections and one quarterback pressure. 2012
In 2012, he again had a reserve role, but got a chance to start in six games because of injuries. <mask> finished the season with 35 tackles (2 for loss) and 1 sack. He missed one game with a knee injury.On March 13, 2013, <mask> was released because of a degenerative knee condition and he was not seen as a good fit in the team's plan to change to a 4-3 defense. While he never developed into a Pro Bowl player like fellow 2005 first-round pick <mask> Ware, he was durable, an excellent locker room presence and fulfilled his primary responsibility in the 3-4 defense, which was to create rushing lanes for the outside linebackers. Baltimore Ravens
On March 15, 2013 <mask> signed a two-year, $3.55 million deal with the Baltimore Ravens. On October 30, 2013, he was waived  after registering 10 tackles as a reserve defensive end. Career statistics

Charitable work
<mask> was actively involved in community service projects during his time at LSU. His sister, Deidre was a three-year letterwoman on the basketball team at LSU, while starting two of those years for the Lady Tigers. As a rookie, <mask> was a member of the Cowboys 2005 Rookie Club, a program designed to introduce rookie team members to community service in the Dallas area which included work with The Salvation Army, Children's Medical Center Dallas and Meals on Wheels.In the spring,
<mask> was a co-chair, along with teammate <mask> Ware, for the second annual Taste of the NFL: The Ultimate Dallas Cowboys Tailgate Party at Abacus restaurant that benefited The North Texas Food Bank. The event raised

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 enough money to provide 330,000 meals to North Texans in need. In 2008 <mask> donated $6,500 to a high school student by the name of Willie Forbes who was going on a trip to Europe for 21 days with People to People Student Ambassadors. In Europe, Willie visited France, Italy, and Greece. While in those countries, Willie visited sites such as the Eiffel Tower and the Parthenon. He and <mask> now share a great friendship. <mask> and his wife, retired WNBA player Aiysha Smith, have three children: Macaria <mask> (born 2007), <mask> <mask>, Jr. (born 2009), and Miko Reign <mask> (born 2013).TV career
In 2015, <mask> began hosting a TV show called DFW Outdoorsman The show covers hunting, fishing, and other similar activities in the North Texas area. He is a regular contributor to the Paul Finebaum Show, broadcast daily on the SEC Network. He is affectionately referred to as "The Big Swagu". In August 2014, <mask> started as co-host of SEC Nation, the SEC/ESPN Network's flagship show. SEC Nation is a weekly college football preview show offering insight into upcoming national and SEC football games. Beginning with the 2017 college football season, <mask> began hosting Thinking Out Loud on the SEC Network with former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy. <mask> now appears regularly on ESPN morning shows Get Up!, First Take, and its flagship NFL studio show, NFL Live.References

External links

 Official website
 Numbers Can't Define <mask>' Worth
 LSU Tigers bio
 Draft profile

1983 births
Living people
All-American college football players
American football defensive ends
Baltimore Ravens players
Dallas Cowboys players
LSU Tigers football players
Players of American football from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
ESPN people
Disney people
African-American players of American football
African-American sports journalists
African-American television personalities
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<mask>'Jie (born 15 August 1993) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Dynamo Moscow in the Russian Premier League and the Cameroon national team. He is known for his pace and dribbling skills. He started his career with Lyon, going up all the way from the youth program to the B squad and ultimately in the club's top tier squad in the French Ligue 1, before moving to Tottenham Hotspur of the Premier League, and then back to Ligue 1 side Marseille before moving to his current club. N'Jie made his senior international debut for Cameroon in 2014 and represented the nation at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021, winning the 2017 tournament and finishing third in the 2021 tournament. Club career

Lyon
N'Jie arrived at Lyon during the summer of 2011. He joined the under-19 squad and quickly progressed to the reserve squad along with Anthony Martial and Nabil Fekir, playing in the French 4th division. He played his first professional match during the 2012–13 season against Stade de Reims in a 3–0 win.N'Jie scored his first professional goal against Mladá Boleslav in the third qualifying round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League, helping his team to a 2–1 victory. On 13 August, he scored his first Ligue 1 goal in a 4–0 victory against Lorient. Earlier that day, he signed a three-year contract extension with Lyon through to 2019. Having been shortlisted for the 2014 CAF Most Promising Talent of the Year, N'Jie lost out to Porto and Algeria midfielder Yacine Brahimi. He finished his first full season at Lyon with eight goals and seven assists in 33 appearances, despite only starting


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 <mask>'Jie would miss the last penalty against Egypt that would ultimately put Cameroon out of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations and help Egypt secure a spot in the final against Senegal. Style of play
N'Jie is a pacy forward who likes to play on the shoulder of the last defender, just off the front man.He can also play off the wing, and as dribbling is a key attribute of his game, he likes to take on players when given the chance. He frequently draws comparisons to Cameroon's all-time leading scorer and compatriot Samuel Eto'o, with this comparison being asserted by Lyon chairman Jean-Michel Aulas. Career statistics

Club

International

International goals
Score and result list Cameroon's goal tally first. Honours

Club
Lyon
Coupe de la Ligue runner-up: 2013–14

Marseille
UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2017–18

International
Cameroon
Africa Cup of Nations: 2017
Africa Cup of Nations third place: 2022

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Premier League players
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Association football forwards
Cameroonian expatriate footballers
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in England
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texts: <mask> (born 23 April 1969), also credited as <mask>, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema and has also done Telugu and Tamil language films. He is the recipient of three National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards, and two Asia Pacific Screen Awards. In 2019, he was awarded India's fourth-highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri, for his contributions to art. Born in Belwa, a small village near the city Bettiah in West Champaran district Bihar, <mask> aspired to become an actor since childhood. He relocated to Delhi at the age of seventeen, and applied for the National School of Drama, only to be rejected four times. He continued to do theatre while studying in college. Bajpayee made his feature film debut with a one-minute role in Drohkaal (1994), and a minor role of a dacoit in Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen (1994).After a few unnoticed roles, he played the gangster Bhiku Mhatre in Ram Gopal Varma's 1998 crime drama Satya, which proved to be a breakthrough. Bajpayee received the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for the film. He then acted in films such as Kaun? (1999) and Shool (1999). For the latter, he won his second Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor. <mask> won the Special Jury National Award for Pinjar (2003). This was followed by a series of brief, unnoticed roles in films that failed to propel his career forward.He then played a greedy politician in the political thriller Raajneeti (2010), which was well-received. In 2012, Bajpayee played Sardar Khan in Gangs of Wasseypur. His next roles were of a naxalite in Chakravyuh (2012), and a CBI officer in Special 26 (2013). In 2016, he portrayed professor Ramchandra Siras, in Hansal Mehta's biographical drama Aligarh, for which he won his third Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor and the Best Actor Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2016. He won the National

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Bajpayee was born in a brahmin family on 23 April 1969 in a small village called Belwa near the city Bettiah in West Champaran, Bihar.He is the second child among his five other siblings, and was named after actor <mask> Kumar. One of his younger sisters Poonam Dubey, is a fashion designer in the film industry. His father was a farmer and his mother was a housewife. As a son of a farmer, Bajpayee would do farming during their vacation. Since childhood, he wanted to become an actor. His father had difficulty collecting money for their education. He studied in a "hut school" till fourth standard, and later did his schooling at Khrist Raja High School, Bettiah.He completed his 12th class from Maharani Janaki Kunwar College in Bettiah. He moved to New Delhi at the age of seventeen and went to Satyawati, then to Ramjas College, Delhi University. Bajpayee had heard about the National School of Drama from actors such as Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah, so he applied. He was rejected three times and wanted to commit suicide afterward. He then attended director and acting coach Barry John's workshop after actor Raghubir Yadav's suggestion. Impressed by Bajpayee's acting, John hired him to assist him in his teaching. After that he applied at the National School of Drama for the fourth time, and they offered him a teaching position at the school instead.Bajpayee was married to a girl from Delhi, but got divorced during his period of struggle. He met actress Shabana Raza, who is also known as Neha, right after her debut film Kareeb (1998). The couple married in 2006 and they have a daughter. Career

1994–2001: Debut and breakthrough
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texts: acted in the biographical drama Bandit Queen (1994). Tigmanshu Dhulia, the casting director of the film suggested his name to its director Shekhar Kapur. Bajpai was considered for the role of dacoit Vikram Mallah in the film, which eventually went to Nirmal Pandey. Bajpayee got the role of dacoit Mann Singh in the film.During that time, he also did a television serial called Kalakaar, directed by Hansal Mehta and Imtihaan (Doordarshan). Bajpayee was a struggling actor when Mahesh Bhatt offered him the soap opera Swabhimaan (1995), which aired on Doordarshan. He agreed to do the serial at a low fee. Next, Bajpayee appeared in minor roles in films such as Dastak (1996) and Tamanna (1997). Director Ram Gopal Varma discovered Bajpayee when he was casting for Daud (1997), a comedy film, where he had a supporting role. Following completion of the filming, Varma expressed his regret for offering Bajpayee a minor role. He then promised Bajpayee  a prominent role in his next film.Satya (1998), a crime drama, was their next film together. In the film, Bajpayee played gangster Bhiku Mhatre, who accompanies the title character to form their nexus in the Mumbai underworld. Satya was mostly shot in the real slums of Mumbai. It was screened at the 1998 International Film Festival of India and opened to mostly positive reviews. Anupama Chopra called Bajpayee and others' performances "[..] so good that you can almost smell the Mumbai grime on their sweaty bodies." The film was a commercial success, and <mask> won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for his performance. Filmfare later included his performance in the 2010 issue of Bollywood's "Top 80 Iconic Performances".Bajpayee then collaborated with Verma in the year 1999 with Kaun? and Shool; with Verma directing the former and producing the latter. Kaun, was a whodunit with only three characters in a


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texts: for his performance in the film. He subsequently portrayed Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav in J. P. Dutta's ensemble war film LOC: Kargil. It was based on the Kargil War, and Bajpayee was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for it. Both the films were commercially unsuccessful. Bajpayee's next roles were in Jaago (2004) opposite Raveena Tandon, Makarand Deshpande's Hanan and the thriller Inteqam. In Jaago, he played a police officer who takes the situation into his own hands, after his 10-year-old daughter is raped and killed. The same year, he appeared in a supporting role in Yash Chopra's romantic drama Veer-Zaara (2004).The film was screened at the 55th Berlin Film Festival, and grossed over  globally, becoming the highest-grossing film of the year. In 2005, Bajpayee acted in Dharmesh Darshan's drama Bewafaa, the thriller Fareb, and the English language film Return to Rajapur. He also acted in the Telugu romance Happy (2006). In 2007, Bajpayee played Major Suraj Singh in 1971. The film tells the story of six Indian army soldiers, who escape from the Pakistani prison after they were captured during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN, criticised the film but wrote: "[Bajpayee] is in great form, he holds back mostly and in the process, constructs a character that says more with his eyes than with words." He next starred opposite Juhi Chawla in Ganesh Acharya's drama film Swami.Bajpayee's final release of the year was the anthology film Dus Kahaniyaan. He acted in the Sanjay Gupta – directed story Zahir alongside Dia Mirza. All of his 2007 releases were financial failures. Next year, he starred in the ensemble comedy Money Hai Toh Honey Hai (2008), which was also a box office disaster. <mask>'s shoulder got injured while filming the Telugu film Vedam, and was absent from the screen for nearly two years. He then returned in a major role with the comedy


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 Jugaad (2009), which was based on the 2006 Delhi sealing drive incident. His next release was the mystery thriller Acid Factory (2009), which was a remake of the 2006 American film Unknown.He played a comic role of one among the people who are kidnapped and locked in a factory with no memory of how they came there. The film did not do well at the box office. The string of financial failures continued with his next release. In Madhur Bhandarkar's Jail (2009), he played a convict serving life imprisonment. He called his role a "narrator" and "mentor" of its protagonist (played by Neil Nitin Mukesh). 2010–present: Raajneeti and beyond
In 2010, Bajpayee starred in Prakash Jha's big-budget ensemble political thriller Raajneeti. Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India in her review mentioned that Bajpayee "[..] grab[s] eyeballs in [his] scenes" and "brings back memories of his mesmeric performances."Indian trade journalists were apprehensive of Raajneeti recovering its  investment. The film, however, proved to be a major commercial success, with worldwide earnings of over . <mask> received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at Filmfare for the film. He then acted in two Telugu films; Vedam (2010) and Puli (2010), followed by the comedy Dus Tola (2010). He also provided the voice of Rama in the animated film Ramayana: The Epic, which was based on the Indian epic Ramayana. Aarakshan (2011), a socio-drama based on the issue of caste based reservations in Indian, was <mask>'s next film. The film sparked controversy in some groups and was banned in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh before its theatrical release.Trade journalists had high expectations for the film, but it ultimately flopped at the box office. <mask>'s followup was the thriller Lanka (2011). In 2012, <mask> appeared in Anurag Kashyap's two-part crime film Gangs of Wasseypur. His character Sardar Khan appeared in the first one. To

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texts: prepare for his role, Bajpayee shaved his head and lost four kilogram of weight. It premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Toronto film festival, and the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Gangs of Wasseypur released in India on 22 June to positive response.Anupama Chopra called it his best performance since Bhiku Mhatre in Satya. For his performance in the film, <mask> was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. His next film was the historical drama Chittagong (2012), based on the Chittagong armoury raid. Bajpai portrayed the Bengali independence fighter Surya Sen in it, for which he charged no money. His final release of the year was Chakravyuh, where he played a Naxalite; a role which required him to lose 5 kilograms weight. Writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar called Chakravyuh "the best film of last 20 years". On the contrary, a review carried by India Today called it an "amateurish attempt", but praised Bajpayee's acting.In 2013, Bajpayee had five releases: Samar, his Tamil debut film, was the first release. He appeared in a supporting role in the film. He then appeared in Neeraj Pandey's heist thriller Special 26. Based on the 1987 Opera House heist, he portrayed a CBI officer in the film. It was followed by the crime film Shootout at Wadala, where he played a character inspired by the gangster Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar. Bajpayee collaborated with Prakash Jha for the fourth time with Satyagraha. The film was loosely inspired by social activist Anna Hazare's fight against corruption in 2011, featuring an ensemble cast, the film was highly anticipated by trade journalists due to its release coinciding with the Mumbai and Delhi gang rape public protests.Satyagraha earned  domestically. Bajpayee then provided the voice of Yudhishthira for Mahabharat, a 3D animation film based on the Indian epic of the same name. In 2014, Bajpayee played the antagonist in the Tamil action film Anjaan.


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 with not just his face but by deploying his whole body." The role earned him his first National Film Award for Best Actor and second Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor. In 2019, he was given India's fourth highest civilian honour Padma Shri for his contributions to art. The same year he portrayed dacoit Man Singh in Abhishek Chaubey's action film Sonchiriya. Raja Sen in his review wrote that Bajpayee is "excellent as a rebel chief."Later, he appeared in the spy action drama web series The Family Man, directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. Bajpayee played the role of a middle-class man who secretly works for an intelligence agency. The series and his performance received positive response from critics with Rohit Naahar of Hindustan Times writing: "<mask> Bajpayee is, as he usually tends to be, effortlessly excellent." He won the Critics Choice Best Actor, Drama Series Award at the 2020 Filmfare OTT Awards. In 2020, Bajpayee did a supporting role in Shirish Kunder's crime thriller film Mrs. Serial Killer, co-starring Jacqueline Fernandez. The film, which was released on Netflix, met with a negative response.His final release of the year was the comedy flick Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari alongside Diljit Dosanjh and Fatima Sana Shaikh. It was the first film to release theatrically in India after nearly eight months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next year, he narrated the Discovery+ documentary show Secrets of Sinauli, directed by Neeraj Pandey. Bajpayee also appeared as a cop trying to solve a murder case in the thriller Silence... Can You Hear It?. The film was released on ZEE5 and met with mixed critical feedback. Acting style & influence
<mask> is a method actor and a director's actor, and is known for his unconventional roles in films. Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has cited Bajpayee's performance in Aks as the inspiration for his role as the antagonist in Kick

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 Later that evening, the Supreme Court ordered K.C's arrest for contempt of court. He was arrested by the Kathmandu Metropolitan Police from TU Teaching hospital, where the hunger strike was being staged, and taken to the Singha Durbar Police Circle. Nepal Medical Association (NMA) demanded the release of Dr. K.C. and condemned the incident.NMA stated that Dr. K.C. had brought positive changes to the medical sector through his hunger strikes. On 9 January 2018, K.C. was presented before the SC and a hearing was scheduled for 10 January. K.C. remained in custody until the hearing. In his statement at the court, K.C.stated that "Parajuli had lobbied and secured a job for his nephew at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) as the commission's legal counselor despite the SC decision in favor of the former CIAA chief commissioner Lokman Singh Karki." On 10 January 2018, he was released on a general date without bail by the Supreme Court. The Court ordered that the controversy of Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli's citizenship and the case of Dr. Shashi Sharma would be reopened. Dr. K.C. 's lawyer Surendra Bhandari stated on K.C. 's behalf that K.C.had accused the Chief Justice Parajuli of his corrupt actions. Similarly, K.C. upon his release, stated:

Fifteenth hunger strike
Dr. K.C. initiated his 15th fast-unto-death in Jumla on June 30, 2018 to protest against alterations made to the Medical Education Ordinance Replacement Bill among other issues made by the government led by K. P. Oli. Personal life
<mask> is unmarried and lived within the hospital quarters until he retired from IoM. His family includes his mother and two brothers. When asked by Vijay


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<mask> (born September 29, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former television news anchor and a nine-time Emmy Award-winner. She is best known for her years as a prime-time weekday anchor for two different Chicago television stations. She has also appeared in several major movies (see Film credits) and at least one television dramatic series (see Television credits). She is the first African-American woman to anchor the prime-time news in Chicago. She entered the Chicago TV market as a reporter after a successful career as newspaper journalist. She earned an advanced degree in journalism at Columbia University in New York. Biography

Education
<mask> earned an undergraduate degree in politics and mass communications from Cleveland State University and a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.Career
<mask> began her career as a print journalist in Cleveland Ohio for The Plain Dealer in the late 1970s until 1980. At that time, she moved to New York and completed her master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1981. From 1981 until 1983, she was at WPIX. In 1983, she joined NBC-affiliated WCMH television as a general assignment reporter, where she was named news anchor in 1984. From 1985 until 2003, she was the 5pm and 10pm weekday news anchor at American Broadcasting Company (ABC) owned and operated WLS-TV Chicago, where she was Chicago's highest-paid television news professional before joining WBBM-TV in 2003 as the weekday 5pm, 6pm and 10pm news anchor, until leaving WBBM in 2008. WBBM is owned and operated by CBS (CBS Worldwide, Inc.). ABC is a division of The Walt Disney Company’s

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  War-torn Somalia, where she was not embedded with US troops, but on her own. No makeup, no lighting, no running water, no teleprompters. Reporting live just outside a mobile home rigged with enough explosives to destroy an entire neighborhood in Glenview, Cook County, Illinois—the bomb was part of a booby-trap left for rescuers and police responding to the body in a suicide. Most dramatic live on-camera moments
  With Nelson Mandela during his first United States tour after his release after 27 years as a political prisoner under apartheid in South Africa. Questioning the man just arrested for (and later convicted of) murdering Michael Jordan's father. Career timeline
1974-79: Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
1979–80: The Plain Dealer (newspaper) Cleveland, Ohio
1980-81: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
1981-84: WPIX Television, a Tribune company, New York, NY
1984-85: WCMH Television, an NBC affiliate, Columbus, Ohio
1985–2003: WLS Television, owned and operated by ABC, a Walt Disney Company, Chicago, Illinois
2003-08: WBBM Television, CBS-owned and operated, Chicago, Illinois
2008-2011: Next TV, Chicago Urban League, Chicago, Illinois
2011–present: Diann <mask> Media, Los Angeles, California

Awards
Among <mask>' many awards are nine Emmys - one national and eight regional. Volunteer work and philanthropy
<mask> and her charitable foundation awarded record scholarships for underprivileged students to go to college.She is the spokesperson for Pediatric Aids Chicago. She also works with Girls in the Game, an organization that promotes fitness and

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 health as a way to teach girls to persevere and gain confidence to careers. <mask> is active with the Ronald McDonald House, the Northern Illinois Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and The Support Group, an organization that assists high school students with school work and home life by providing tutoring and social services. She lends her time and talent to the benefit of numerous other causes, especially organizations that focus on children and education. Family
Until recently, <mask> and her now teen-aged son resided in Chicago's Lincoln Park, see: "Chicago TV Anchor <mask> <mask> sells her Lincoln Park Mansion for $4,525,000" - Curbed.com (paraphrased, see article). There are unconfirmed reports (not confirmed by <mask> herself) that she may be relocating to California for a career opportunity, as published in various media outlets. Film credits
<mask> appeared in several major motion pictures, playing herself, including:
Richie Rich 1994, starring Macaulay Culkin.Primal Fear (film) 1996, starring Richard Gere. The Negotiator 1998, starring Samuel L. Jackson. Televisions credits
<mask> is known to have appeared in at least one television dramatic role as someone other than herself:
Boss - 2011, episode 5, starring Kelsey Grammer, on Starz. References

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 OBAMA's Executive Sounding Board (BUSINESSWEEK Magazine and MSNBC News)
 Starz TV Appearance for <mask> <mask> on Kelsey Grammer's BOSS (YourEntertainment)
 <mask> <mask> Gets More Than $4.5 Million For Her Lincoln Park Mansion (paraphrased) Curbed.com
 EBONY Magazine: <mask> <mask> - High Profile Chicago Media... (via

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 EARLIER Real Estate Deal Nets <mask> <mask> Over $1 Million (paraphrased) - Chicago Tribune
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 News Anchor To Host URBAN LEAGUE'S Next TV Series - Chicago Defender News Company
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 NBC 5 Chicago: $4,825,000 for a Chicago TV Anchor's Lincoln Park Mansion
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1958 births
Living people
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
African-American journalists
African-American television personalities
Television personalities from Cleveland
Television anchors from Chicago
Journalists from Ohio
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title: Wallis Giunta

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<mask> (born 1985) is an Irish-Canadian  mezzo-soprano opera singer and actress performing at leading theatres and opera companies around the world. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Ottawa to Colleen Wrighte and <mask>. She has a brother, Macallan, and a sister, Marley. Giunta sang in the Ottawa Central Children's Choir from age 9 to 15, and began voice training with Charlotte Stewart in Ottawa at age 13. She attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute, and graduated high school from Glebe Collegiate Institute. At 17, she began her post-secondary studies in voice at The University of Ottawa, completing two years. She then transferred to The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in her junior year, receiving her Performance Diploma (Voice) at age 21 and her Artist Diploma (Voice) at age 23.While a student, she achieved first place in the Royal Conservatory Orchestra Concerto Competition. She attended training programs at the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Ravinia Festival, the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie, the Georg Solti Accademia and the Banff Centre. She graduated from the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio in 2011, and both the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and The Juilliard School Artist Diploma in Opera Studies in 2013. She has studied extensively with both Jean MacPhail in Toronto, and Edith Wiens in New York. Career
In spring 2010, before completing her studies, <mask> made her professional debut, as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Atelier and the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto. She spent summer 2010 at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, where she was invited to audition for the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, which she joined in September 2011. Earlier in 2011, she had made her American operatic debut as Pribaoutki in the acclaimed Robert Lepage

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texts: production of Stravinsky's The Nightingale & Other Short Fables, on tour with the Canadian Opera Company.That season, she also performed Zweite Dame in the Canadian Opera Company main stage production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, directed by Diane Paulus, and made her debut at Opera Lyra Ottawa as Lola in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. In 2012, she performed in two Metropolitan Opera Young Artist productions, as Phénice in Gluck's Armide, and as Dorabella in Stephen Wadsworth's staging of Così fan tutte. She also debuted at the Fort Worth Opera as Cherubino. In 2013 she returned to the Canadian Opera Company singing both Sesto and Annio in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, directed by Christopher Alden. This was followed by her Metropolitan Opera main stage debut as Contessa Ceprano in Verdi's Rigoletto, and her debut at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, singing the role of Tiffany in I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, by John Adams. She also made her Asian debut later that year, with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, reprising the role of Annio. In 2014, she returned to the Canadian Opera Company, reprising the role of Dorabella, in a new production by director Atom Egoyan.She also created the Canadian premiere of Louis Andriessen's one-woman opera, Anaïs Nin, for the 21C Festival in Toronto, and returned to Opera Atelier as Bradamante in Handel's Alcina. In early 2015, <mask> returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Olga in a new production of Lehár's The Merry Widow, broadcast worldwide for their Live in HD series. That was followed by a return to Opera Lyra Ottawa as Cherubino, and a debut at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, reprising her role in I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. In the fall of 2015, she became a member of the ensemble at Oper Leipzig in Germany. In November 2015, she made her German operatic debut at Oper Leipzig in the role of Cherubino, in a


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texts: new production of Le nozze di Figaro. That was followed at Oper Leipzig by her role debut as Siébel in Gounod's Faust, and her first Wagnerian role as Rossweise in Die Walküre. In March 2016 she made another role debut at Oper Leipzig as Angelina in La Cenerentola.She debuted in April 2016 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, followed by a debut with the Hamburger Symphoniker in May 2016, and her role debut as Mercédès in Carmen for Oper Frankfurt's new Barry Kosky staging in July 2016. In the fall of 2016, she debuted a new role at Opera Atelier, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and debuted in concert with the Munich Radio Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia. In 2017, she starred in three productions for Opera North, singing the title roles in La Cenerentola and L'enfant et les sortilèges, as well as Dinah in Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, again to critical acclaim. She was recognized for her work in 2017 with awards from the International Opera Awards, WhatsOnStage Opera Awards and The Arts Desk. <mask> made her London debut at Cadogan Hall in the BBC Proms on 27 August 2018. She also made her first appearance on BBC Television as a guest on BBC Proms "Extra", live at Royal Albert Hall in August, 2018. She gave her first TEDx Talk, on embracing artistic versatility, in May 2018.She also received critical acclaim for her role as Dinah in the film version of Trouble in Tahiti, released in July 2018 by Opera North and The Guardian. She went on to debut the role of Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, and the title roles in Bizet's Carmen and Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, all for Oper Leipzig. In 2019 Giunta debuted as Dodo in Breaking the Waves by Missy Mazzoli at the Edinburgh International Festival, debuted the role of Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo for Opera Atelier, debuted at The Grange Festival as Cherubino, at the Sydney Opera House in a solo concert, and at the Royal Swedish


title: Clark Gregg

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<mask>. (born April 2, 1962) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing Agent Phil Coulson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012), Captain Marvel (2019), and the television spin-off series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020). <mask> also voiced Phil Coulson on the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man (2012–2017) and in the video games Lego Marvel Super Heroes (2013), Marvel Heroes (2013), and Lego Marvel's Avengers (2016). <mask> is also known for his role as FBI Special Agent Mike Casper on the NBC political drama series The West Wing (2001–2004) and as Richard, the ex-husband of Christine Campbell, in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006–2010). He wrote the horror film What Lies Beneath (2000), and wrote and directed the black comedy Choke (2008) and the comedy-drama Trust Me (2013). He appeared in the films The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998), One Hour Photo (2002), In Good Company (2004), When a Stranger Calls (2006), 500 Days of Summer (2009), Much Ado About Nothing (2012), The To Do List (2013), Labor Day (2013), and Live by Night (2016).Early life
<mask> was born April 2, 1962, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Layne (née Shine) and <mask> <mask>., an Episcopal priest and Stanford University professor. Because his family relocated frequently, he had lived in seven cities by the time he was 17. He attended high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where his father was a professor at nearby Duke University. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University for two years before dropping out and moving to Manhattan. He worked various jobs, such as being a bar back, a security guard at the Guggenheim Museum, and a parking valet at a restaurant. He later enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied drama and English, and graduated in 1986. Career

<mask> was a founding member, and later artistic director, of the

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texts: off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company, which formed in 1983.<mask> has been featured in a number of supporting roles in films, such as Lovely & Amazing, The Human Stain, and In Good Company, and a number of guest spots on TV series, such as Will & Grace, Sports Night, Sex and the City and The West Wing. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2000 thriller What Lies Beneath. He is the director and screenwriter of the 2008 film Choke, based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name, starring Sam Rockwell. <mask> consulted his father, a retired religion professor at Stanford, for the quotation from Saint Paul's letter to the Galatians which <mask> used in Choke. <mask>'s father is also the former chaplain at Stanford Memorial Church. In 2008, <mask> appeared in the film Iron Man as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson.In 2010, <mask> reprised his role as Agent Coulson for Iron Man 2. <mask> had since signed up for a multiple film deal as the character with Marvel Studios. In 2011, he returned again as Coulson for Thor. <mask> noted his being a part of the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe as being very exciting; "Agent Coulson was one of the guys who wasn't really in the comic books, and he was a very kind of small role in Iron Man," he said, "and I was just very lucky that they chose to expand that character and chose to put him more into the universe of it. It's really a blast!" Following on from his appearance in Thor, he again reprised his role in The Avengers. <mask> also stars in a series of Marvel short films that center around his character and can be seen on the Blu-ray releases of the films.In October 2010, <mask> was part of the cast of a staged reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart alongside Dylan Walsh, Lisa Kudrow, and Tate Donovan, presented in Los Angeles on the occasion of the play's 25th anniversary (and preceding the play's 2011 Broadway premiere, which retained elements of this staged reading); the reading was directed by his then-father-in-law, Joel

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 Grey. From 2013 to 2020, <mask> portrayed Agent Phil Coulson in the ABC television superhero drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., set within the MCU, alongside Ming-Na Wen and Chloe Bennet. He also went on to direct episodes in seasons five and six. On April 20, 2013, Trust Me, a film written, produced, and directed by <mask>, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film found limited release in the United States in June 2014. <mask> reprised his role as Agent Coulson in the 2019 superhero film Captain Marvel. Personal life

<mask> married actress Jennifer Grey on July 21, 2001; the couple co-starred in the Lifetime TV movie Road to Christmas.They have a daughter Stella, born December 3, 2001. <mask> and Grey were two of the demonstrators at the 2017 Women's March held on January 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C. On July 3, 2020, Grey and <mask> announced they had separated amicably on January 18, 2020, and were in the process of divorcing. Their divorce ruling was issued in November and that became official finalized on February 16, 2021. <mask> is a sober alcoholic, and describes himself as a member of a Jewish family (his ex-wife's faith). He has a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. <mask> is a cousin of New York City government official and former mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia. Filmography

Film

Television

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1962 births
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American Episcopalians
American male film actors
American male screenwriters
American male television actors
American male voice actors
American practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
People awarded a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Film directors from Massachusetts
Film directors from North Carolina
Living people
Male actors from Boston
Male actors from North Carolina
People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
Writers from Boston
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title: Paul Crouch (activist)

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<mask> /pʊəl kraʊtʃ/ (June 24, 1903 – November 18, 1955) was a communist activist and then paid government informer regarding communist infiltration in the U.S. federal government. <mask> biographer Gregory Taylor has called him a "naïve, ill-educated recruit" to the Communist Party. Oppenheimer biographers Bird and Sherwin have claimed that he was the "most highly paid" informer for the Justice Department in 1951-1952. Background

<mask> was born in Moravian Falls, North Carolina, on June 24, 1903. Career

Communism

<mask> was a worker, secretary, and newspaper editor. In April 1924, he joined the U.S. Army. While stationed in Hawaii, he formed a Hawaiian Communist League (1924-1927) with 75 other soldiers and supported a local strike on a sugar plantation.On February 17, 1925, the military arrested the group and singled out <mask> as their leader. After discharging the others, they sentenced him to 40 years of hard labor. <mask> contacted Upton Sinclair, who gained support from the Daily Worker newspaper and the International Labor Defense (ILD), both affiliates of the nascent Communist Party. Thanks to the efforts of ILD lawyer Austin Lewis, <mask> served another 24 months in Alcatraz on a commuted three-year sentence. <mask> emerged on June 1, 1927, as a "national cause célèbre" to the Communist Party, thanks to the Daily Worker. <mask> moved to New York City, where he joined the Workers Party of America. He worked at the Daily Worker, where he met Whittaker Chambers on staff.The Party sent him with George Mink on a mission to Moscow from December 1927 to April 1928. He attended the Sixth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. He attended what he later called the  "Frunze Institute." In Moscow, he met Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, Klara Zetkin,

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 and "Big" Bill Haywood. He also meet Sam Darcy there. <mask> returned from Moscow, charged with fomenting national self-determination of African Americans in the "Black Belt" of the American South — from the states of Maryland to Texas. Practically speaking, the American party supported African Americans legally (see Scottsboro Case) but did not go so far as to promote national self-determination.Following the defeat of the CPUSA ticket for the 1928 Presidential Election of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, <mask> toured the South but found little support except in North Carolina. He supported the 1929 Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. He supported the National Textile Workers’ Union (NTWU, now TWUA). He also worked on a strike in Norfolk, Virginia, under the name "Fred Allen." He later claimed to have served the CPUSA as:
 1933-1934:  Utah state organizer
 1934-1937:  Carolina state organizer
 1938-1939:  Alabama state organizer (and editor of the ‘’New South’’)
 1939-1941:  Tennessee state organizer
 1941-1942:  Alameda Country, California, organizer

Anti-communism

<mask> claimed to have broken from the CPUSA in January 1942, although the Party renewed his membership for 1943. During five years as a paid government informer, he testified regarding Robert Oppenheimer, Harry Bridges, Charlie Chaplin, William Remington, Milton A. Abernethy, and many others as Communists.He alleged that Communist conspiracy had reached the White House and inspired the civil rights movement. During his testimony on May 6, 1949, he spoke at length about efforts by the CPUSA to continue to infiltrate the U.S. Army. He also mentioned alleged communists known to him, including Harry Bridges (strike organizer), William Schneiderman (California CP), Robert Oppenheimer (atomic scientist),

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 including Haakon Chevalier (translator). Clearly, the committee tried to connect <mask> to the Hiss Case. During the years 1934-1937, he testified that he had worked under J. Peters, Max Bedacht, daughter Elsa Bedacht, and Peter's replacement Rudy Baker. He knew George Mink. He also knew Alexander Trachtenberg well.(Bedacht and Peters recruited Whittaker Chambers to the underground, while George Mink was an early underground comrate. Chambers’ wife Esther Shemitz illustrated a book for International Publishers.) However, he did not know Isaac Folkoff or William Edward Crane (AKA Irving Keith), people in one of Chambers’ earlier networks. (It is worth noting that J. Peters, already under federal investigation, left the U.S. permanently on May 8, 1949, two days after <mask>'s testimony.) During 1951-1952, <mask> was the "most highly paid" informer for the Justice Department and earned $9,675 (more than $87,000 in inflation-adjusted 2016 dollars) during those two years. During the same period, he lectured across the U.S., sometimes with his wife Sylvia and fellow informant Louis Budenz. In 1953, <mask> testified in a deportation hearing of Jacob Burck that he had often seen Burck at Communist Party meetings, yet failed to correctly identify him at that hearing.Discredited

On January 5, 1953, an appeals board overturned a decision regarding the loyalty of Mary Dublin Keyserling, wife of Leon Keyserling, both New Deal economists. Both Keyserlings resigned from government on January 9. <mask>, J. B. Matthews, and Senator Joseph McCarthy were their chief accusers. Reporters Joseph Alsop, Stewart Alsop, and Drew Pearson began to challenge <mask>'s testimony. (I. F. Stone joined in March 1954.) Within a few months, Justice stopped using <mask> as a witness.In 1955, supreme court justices agreed

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 that <mask> and Manning Johnson had made allegations under perjury. Death

<mask> died on November 18, 1955, at the hospital of the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, California, of cancer of the throat and bronchial tubes. Legacy
At his death, one of the people whom he had accused wrote:  In his testimony before the Courts, Congressional Committees, and Loyalty Boards, <mask> did just what he was hired to do and, whatever may be said about him, he gave his employers full value of what they wanted of him. He died lonely and despised by those who used him. Those who hired him remain respectable and powerful. They used him and when he was no longer useful they threw him aside. There are plenty of others to take his place.His very death was a final act of service to his hirers, for by it he became purged of his evil doing and they, of their responsibility for using him, for of the dead we should speak only good. Our Attorney General will now be spared the embarrassment of answering questions about the progress of his long delayed "study" of <mask>'s conflicting testimony or about what is being done to right the wrongs done his victims. Works

 ‘’Broken Chains’’ (unpublished manuscript about his CPUSA career 1925-1942)

Images

 <mask> testifies against Clarence Hiskey
 <mask> 1951 (Getty Images)

See also

 Elizabeth Bentley
Louis Budenz
 Harvey Matusow
 Manning Johnson
 Herbert Philbrick
 William Remington
 Milton A. Abernethy
 Anti-communism

References

External sources

 <mask> (1903-1955) East Carolina University

1903 births
1955 deaths
American spies for the Soviet Union
American communists
McCarthyism
Members of the Workers Party of the United States
Members of the Communist Party USA
Federal Bureau of Investigation informants
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title: Ann Plato

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<mask> (c. 1824 – unknown) was a 19th-century Black (African American and Native American) educator and author. She was the second woman of color to publish a book in the United States and the first to publish a book of essays and poems. As a young Black girl writing in the 19th century, <mask> has been described as an heir to Phillis Wheatley, who wrote her first published poem at the age of 13 in 1766. There is little biographical information on <mask>, and most of her life is known from her only published work, Essays; including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry, which included the preface written by Reverend James W. C. Pennington, an abolitionist leader in Hartford, Connecticut, and a pastor. Early years
<mask> was born around 1820 or 1824 in Hartford, Connecticut, and was most likely the eldest daughter of Henry and <mask>. In the 1828 Hartford City Directory, <mask> was listed as a laborer and <mask> was listed as a seamstress, living at 23 Elm Street. Her father was a farmer, and she had one sister, as well as a brother who died young.As is the case with many people of color who lived in America during the 1800s, there exists very little information about her. Most of what is known about her comes from the introduction of her book, written by Reverend James W. C. Pennington, pastor of the Colored Congregational Church of Hartford and the first black man to attend classes at Yale University. Pennington was an important influence for <mask> as an educator. In her book's introduction, Pennington wrote of <mask>: "My authoress is a colored lady, a member of my church, of pleasing piety

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 and modest worth." Teacher and writer
<mask> taught at the Free African Schools, housed in the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church from 1840 until 1847. She was a member of the Talcott Street Congregational Church in Hartford. In 1841, at the age of 16, she published her only known book, entitled Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Poetry.The essays reflected the New England Puritan values of her environment. Topics included "Benevolence," "Education," "Employment," and "Religion." The essays stressed both the importance of education and of leading a pious, industrious life. The book also contained some poetry and biographies of departed female friends and acquaintances. Some critics from later generations found <mask>'s essays and poetry to be overly moralizing as well as routine and lacking in originality. Many of them also derided her for not mentioning the issue of slavery in America, as did some of her near contemporaries including Frances Harper and Charlotte Forten Grimke. <mask>'s one reference to slavery in her book concerns its abolition in the West Indies in 1838 (perhaps a reference to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 valid throughout the British Empire).She does, however, emphasize the equality of people, regardless of race, a few times in the Essays. Nothing is known about <mask>'s life after her book was published in 1841. Furthermore, the year of her death cannot be found. However, Ron Welburn in his book Hartford's <mask> and the Native Borders of Identity (SUNY Press, 2015) records that in the 1870 Iowa Federal census a 46-year-old woman called "<mask>" who may well be

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title: Ann Plato

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 <mask> is listed as residing in Decorah Township, Winneshiek County, Iowa. Legacy
In 1988, Oxford University Press released The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers with Professor Henry Louis Gates as the general editor of the series. <mask>'s book was reprinted as a part of this collection. Trinity College, Connecticut, established the <mask> Fellowship in her honor in 1988.Quotes
"A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be." –<mask>

"A good education is another name for happiness" –<mask>

"Although there are many nations, and many stations in life, yet he watches over us, he has given us immortal souls. Some have white complexions, some are red, like our wandering natives, others have sable or olive complexions. But God hath made of one blood all who dwell upon the face of the earth." –<mask>, "Benevolence," Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces of Prose and Poetry

Published work
Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces of Prose and Poetry (1841), contains four biographical compositions, 16 very short essays, and 20 poems and is sectioned off into three parts: "Prose," "Biographies," and "Poetry." This collection reflects <mask>'s work and interest in the antebellum schoolroom as well as her relationship to religion. The prose section reflects <mask>’s ideas about education and how Christian principals are infused in the classroom.<mask> uses the

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 eulogies of four Black girls, Louisa Sebury, <mask> Pell, Eliza Loomis Sherman, and Elizabeth Low, who most likely died of consumption, to present a template on how to live a "legible" righteous life. Finally, her poetry section is a collection of poetry that further considers life, death, and suffering. References

Sources
 Bassard, Katherine Clay. Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African Women's Writing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. .
 Shockley, <mask>. Afro-American Women Writers 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide, New Haven, Connecticut: Meridian Books, 1989. Wright, Michelle Diane.Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women's Social Thought. Three Sistahs Press, 2007. Further reading
Robinson, William H., editor. Early Black American Poets, Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Publishers, 1969. Sherman, Joan R. Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Nineteenth Century, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1974. Welburn, Ron. Hartford's <mask> Plato and the Native Borders of Identity, SUNY Press, 2015. .External links
 Online edition of "Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Poetry"
 Essays by <mask> at Quotidiana.org
 Information about the Ann Plato Fellowship
 Location of an edition of <mask>'s book
 Home page for The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

1824 births
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African-American women writers
African-American writers
American women essayists
American essayists
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title: Lys Symonette

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Bertlies "<mask><mask> (born Berta Weinschenk: 21 December 1914 – 27 November 2005) was a German-American pianist, chorus singer and musical stage performer. In 1945 she took a job as  rehearsal pianist, coach, understudy or multi-tasking "swing-girl" for The Firebrand of Florence, a Kurt Weill musical making its Broadway debut. This proved to be the start of a new career as Weill's musical assistant: from that point a principal focus of her professional life was on the composer and, more particularly after his early death in 1950, the career of his widow, the stage performer Lotte Lenya. When Lenya died, in 1981, <mask>tte was appointed vice-president of the Kurt Weill Foundation, also serving as its "musical executive". When she died her friend and frequent collaborator, Prof. Kim H. Kowalke, published an affectionate tribute in which he described her as "the last and irreplaceable link to the inner artistic circle of Weill and Lenya". Life

Provenance and early years
Berta Elisabeth Weinschenk was born in Mainz. Max Weinschenk, her father, was a Jewish wine merchant.Her mother, born Gertrude Metzger, was a committed singer who, as a contralto, gave recitals not just in her home city but also in Frankfurt and Gotha. There was musicianship on her father's side too: Jacob Hugo Weinschenk, her uncle, was an enthusiastic 'cellist (who also wrote sonnets). Bertlies (as she quickly came to be known) grew up with her parents and her younger sister, Marianne, at the family home at "Fischtor 21" in Mainz. An early blow was the death of her father when she was eleven. Almost at once, however, Bertlies and Marianne found they had acquired a (Christian) stepfather, Dr. Willi Honheisser. She attended the "Linkenbach" private school and then, between 1924 and 1934, the

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