By all accounts, McLemore’s smooth bass formed the bedrock of the group’s harmonies as their songs became the soundtrack to the late ’60s and early ’70s.
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Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2026
On the surface, this American-British group’s music seems geared mostly to dance floors with its inviting mix of R&B, funk and vocal harmonies that nod to The Supremes and other classic 1960s artists and such 1970s favorites as Chic and Sister Sledge, by way of Destiny’s Child.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
Gelb said the broad crime rate decreases have made some criminologists question historic understandings of what drives trends in violent crime and how to battle it.
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Claudia Lauer,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
And as states started to abandon Common Core, school controversies began to focus less on standards and achievement than on competing understandings of America itself.
The third explores attempts by thinkers to use the concept of Asia to forge solidarities, which unraveled at the Asian Relations Conference in Delhi in 1947, when regional powers could not resolve their contradictions.
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Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
And as the Amistad insurgency brings out emphatically, this was a tale of conscious and purposeful action, driven by group solidarities, and the search for individual freedom and collective self-determination.
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