Kasi
Americannoun
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"Fire Shut Up in My Bones," the work of jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard and writer-director Kasi Lemmons, was the first opera by a Black composer or librettist to reach the Met stage.
From Salon • Oct. 6, 2024
South Kivu governor Théo Ngwabidje Kasi put the death toll at 176 and said that others were still missing.
From Reuters • May 6, 2023
In the years since, Criterion has added titles including Sidney Poitier’s “Buck and the Preacher” and “Eve’s Bayou,” from director Kasi Lemmons, but glaring omissions remain.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023
No one could sing like Whitney Houston, and Kasi Lemmons, the director of the biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” only rarely asks her lead, Naomi Ackie, to try.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022
And Pratardana, the king of Kasi, by giving his son to a Brahmana, secured to himself unique and undying fame in this as well as in the other world.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
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