...review - Scott Joplin's rarely performed opera gets a rousing ovation in the City of Lights:

"'Treemonisha' in Paris"
Nearly 100 years after it was composed, nearly 45 years after its first full-scale performance in America, Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha has arrived in France. Beneath the glittering... read article

Here on JakeLamar.com, read Jake's essay:

"Behind Enemy Lines: Post-War Notes of an American in Paris" "It’s over," I sighed. Sitting in my Montmartre apartment, watching the ecstatic takedown of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad, I believed that maybe peace was at hand. Perhaps now, with the fall of Saddam, the threats, the attacks, all the ugliness, could come to an end....
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...book review and essay on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.:

"King, Minus Sentimental Goo: A Bold, Dangerous Radical"
Is there any 20th-century American icon who has been more banalized, neutralized and homogenized by mythology than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? ... read article

...reviewing books at Salon.com:

"The Role Model Syndrome"
Two new memoirs by talented black women show how hard it is to reconcile good writing and racial politics.... read article

...at the Washington Post:

"Small World"
Jake Lamar's review of the book The Portable Promised Land: Stories by Touré... the Washington Post charges a fee to read this article

...at the Washington Post:

"The Outsider"
Jake Lamar's review of the book Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley... the Washington Post charges a fee to read this article

...at the Washington Post:

"Folk Heroine"
Jake Lamar's review of the book Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd... the Washington Post charges a fee to read this article

...at the Washington Post:

"Just Passing Through"
Jake Lamar's review of the book Caucasia by Danzy Senna... the Washington Post charges a fee to read this article

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