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

“I would say, in most of the places I travel, in small towns, Covid is over,” said Brady Revels, a sales representative who lives in suburban Omaha and is vaccinated.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2022

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

An amusing summing-up of Miss Edgeworth's novels is given by Leigh Hunt in his poem, Blue Stocking Revels.

From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen