In Great Barrington, Du Bois was born into a community of free Black landowners whose heritage included African, Dutch and French ancestry. Jeffers’s book is an ambitious work set with the fine china of the oeuvre of Du Bois, a man whose life and work pulsated with questions about the inheritance of Black American history and what one does with that fraught and complex legacy. His writing, his ambitions, his failings and his accomplishments are the bass line of Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s sweeping, masterly debut novel, “The Love Songs of W.E.B. He is, many would argue, the founding father of modern Black America. Great Barrington was the birthplace of Du Bois, and as I learned when I was named a Du Bois scholar, the great man was so many things: an elder statesman of African American life, a distinguished historian, a sociologist, a civil-rights leader and an early model of what it might mean to be a public intellectual. At 16, I moved to Great Barrington, Mass., to attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Du Bois has been a part of my intellectual life for as long as I can remember.
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However, Bonnie is still going strong and recently released her 17th studio album “Between The Earth And The Stars”, celebrating 50 years in showbiz!ĭo you have a favourite TV theme song? Get in touch and don’t forget to follow our TV themes playlist featuring other awesome songs from great TV shows. The series never recovered and was unfortunately cancelled, never to see the light of day again. ‘Cover Up’ had a rather sad history as the lead actor the rather handsome Jon-Eric Hexum tragically died in an onset gun accident after only seven episodes and had to be replaced. I’m sure it was the appearance in the series that brought the song back to the publicity attention giving Bonnie a huge number two hit in the UK helped by the iconic video. Even though “Holding Out For A Hero” was not sung by Bonnie and was actually covered by EG Daily. The series was shown on BBC1 on a Friday (or was it a Saturday) evening and although it only survived for 22 episodes it made an impression on me. It finally hit the top ten in the UK in 1985 when it was used as the theme tune to the short lived American detective series ‘Cover Up’. “Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?”īy Mark Keen “Holding Out For A Hero” would first appear on the soundtrack to ‘Footloose’ in 1984, but flopped on its initial release in the UK.
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