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

Pamela Revels when students have been eating pancakes at the school breakfast.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018

Come now to Revels, this blest day shall prove The happy crown of noble Faith and Love.

From The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) by Beaumont, Francis