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Article: Syl Jones explodes racial stereotypes with glee in ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 24, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... about race. It is even more challenging to satirize this national minefield without alienating one's audience. Playwright Syl Jones, director Tazewell Thompson and a versatile cast largely succeed with "Black No More: A Social Science Fiction," which ...

Article: Syl Jones adapts Hughes novel for ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 7, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Debra L. Wicks as the director of the Children's Theatre Company's production of "Not Without Laughter." ***** Syl Jones didn't hesitate when the Children's Theatre Company asked him to make a play out of "Not Without Laughter," Langston ...

Article: Down the tracks of history; Playwright Syl Jones is ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  February 2, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Syl Jones' new play, "The Brotherhood," which opens Saturday at the Great American History Theater, is a tale of three cities; St ...

Article: Cincinnati: Confederate to the core; A year after a ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Syl Jones The inciting incident is by now infamous: On April 7, 2001, white police officer Stephen Roach shot and killed African-American ...

Transcript: Carl Sagan's Scientific 'Search for God'
Talk of the Nation (NPR);  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... of the Nation (NPR) 12-22-2006 Carl Sagan's Scientific 'Search for God' Host ... popular scientist, author, TV star Carl Sagan died. Sagan was a first-class scientist ... Dot," where the name came from. Mr. CARL SAGAN (Astronomer): I was an experimenter ...

Carl Sagan
Archive Photos;  January 1, 1996 ;     280 words ...Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Carl Sagan Astronomer Carl Sagan became an unlikely TV celebrity with his enthusiastic ... Prize for his book "The Dragons of Eden." Sagan. Carl Sagan. astronomers. astronomy. scientists. television ...

Article: Carl Sagan lived a dream.
Appleseeds;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Young Carl Sagan did not hide it very well. It sparkled in his eyes ... he never gave up." Today, many people remember Carl Sagan as a popular science fiction writer. But Carl Sagan was much more than a writer. He was an influential ...