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A slam book was briefly the focus of the murder investigation of Carole Lee Kensinger in 1948. [7] Slam books crossed racial barriers and were popular among African American high school communities in the 1950s. [8] and were not limited to the US. In 2005, friends created a slam book as a going-away present for 16-year-old Richa Thapa who ...
Marc Kelly Smith (born 1949) is an American poet and founder of the poetry slam movement, for which he received the nickname Slam Papi. [1] Smith was born in 1949 and grew up on the southeast side of Chicago. He attended/graduated Charles P. Caldwell Elementary School and James H. Bowen High School. Smith spent most of his young life as a ...
A slam book is a notebook (commonly the spiral-bound type) which is passed among children and teenagers. The keeper of the book starts by posing a question (which may be on any subject) and the book is then passed round for each contributor to fill in their own answer to the question. [citation needed]
(The Center Square) - California has nearly five million uncounted ballots a week after the election — ballots that could determine whether Republicans have a trifecta in federal government.
When Erie High School students graduate on Saturday, the name of fellow senior Natavia Sanders will appear in the commencement program. But the pronouncement of her name will be marked not with ...
A Los Angeles special education teacher is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student in her car and providing minors with marijuana — and police believe there may be other victims.
The competing high school slam teams present four individual poems and one group piece performed by four people. Each team competes in two preliminary bouts. [3] Four teams compete each bout. The top 16 go onto semifinals and the top 4 go onto finals. The name of the slam comes from the Public Enemy song of the same name. In 2010 the poetry ...
Taylor Mali is the former president of Poetry Slam Incorporated, and he has performed with such renowned poets as Billy Collins and Allen Ginsberg. Although he retired from the National Poetry Slam competition in 2005, [11] he still helps curate the reading series Page Meets Stage, held monthly at the Bowery Poetry Club.