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Stevie Wonder on the Death of Ray Charles and His Hopes for Barack Obama

By Ben Corbett

Boulder Weekly | June 30, 2008

His 2007 U.S. tour, A Wonder Summer's Night, is his first broad-based national tour in over a decade, inspired by the 2006 death of his mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, a sharecropper's daughter born in Alabama in 1930.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles

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Obama's Victory Revives the American Dream ... For Nownew

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Boulder Weekly | Ben Corbett | 11-17-2008 | Commentary

Tags: Iraq, 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, war & peace

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Boulder Weekly | Ben Corbett | 11-03-2008 | Commentary

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Republicans

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Wyclef Jean Agrees to 4/20 Censorshipnew

Wyclef Jean, whose performance on Friday at Colorado University-Boulder has been pitched as an alternative to the annual 4/20 smokeout on campus, has agreed to not directly mention marijuana or 4/20 during his show.

Boulder Weekly | Hadley Vandiver | 04-19-2012 | Concerts

Tags: University of Colorado, marijuana, 4/20, smokeout, Wyclef Jean