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

“Kids like to come up and give you a little bit of a hug,” Corporal Revels said.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018

Some writers will have it that this institution, as it now exists, is but a survival of the office of Master of the Revels, which flourished under the Tudors and the first Stuarts.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin