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Curley

[kur-lee]

noun

  1. James M(ichael), 1874–1958, U.S. politician.



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If Brown’s people had recorded the audience properly, the sound of the crowd on 1963’s “Live at the Apollo” wouldn’t have been, as musician John Curley tells us, “a bunch of Jewish teenagers” at a suburban sock-hop, superimposed like a laugh track.

Lead singer Grian Chatten once said he and his bandmates Carlos O'Connell, Tom Coll, Conor Curley and Conor Deegan were drawn to one another "because of our appreciation of poetry".

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In 2022, former Google worker April Curley filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Jose alleging that she and other Black workers experienced systemic discrimination.

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Curley, who worked at Google for six years, had been hired to conduct outreach and design recruiting programs with historically Black colleges.

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Black workers were hired to lower-level jobs, paid lower wages, subjected to hostile comments and denied promotions, Curley and other Black workers who joined the proposed class-action alleged in their lawsuit.

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