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The Blues
“For several decades … the tent shows were a huge entertainment form. They were largely [staged by] all-black companies . And they had the blues. In these huge tents … a new sound was coming to life.”
— Paige McGinley, assistant professor of performing arts, in “Staging the Blues:
The Ma Rainey Story”
Unions
“Labor unions brought working people into the political sphere. Now we’re in a situation where organized labor has vastly declined in its ability to do that.”
— Jake Rosenfeld, associate professor of sociology, in “Right to Work? Unions & Income Inequality”
Asthma
“It’s the No. 1 reason that children miss school. It is a chronic condition. … And statistics do show that asthma disproportionately impacts poor and minority children in urban centers.”
— Kelly Harris, doctoral student in education, on what inspired her to use Geographic Information Systems to map “hotspots” of childhood asthma in St. Louis in “Mapping Asthma: The Geography of Inequality”
Library
“As soon as I saw this … there was no doubt that we have an authentic Michelangelo document in our library. It was completely unknown — or completely unpublished — at that time.”
— William Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History, in “The Many Lives of Michelangelo”
