revels

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Check the history books for a better example of moral leadership: Hiram Revels, the first Black Republican in the Senate.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024

The selection represented a wide variety of art forms, sizes and funding levels, from Tacoma’s Puget Sound Revels, which performs music and theater and was awarded $2,800, to Redmond’s Centro Cultural Mexicano, which received $25,000.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023

He followed in the distant footsteps of African Americans Hiram Revels, elected in 1870 to fill a Senate seat from Mississippi, and Blanche K. Bruce, elected to the Senate in 1875, also from Mississippi.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2021

Pamela Revels when students have been eating pancakes at the school breakfast.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018

"Linton for Master of the Revels," said some one.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James