CBS newsman Mike Wallace, the dogged, merciless reporter and interviewer who took on politicians, celebrities and other public figures in a 60-year career highlighted by the on-air confrontations that helped make "60 Minutes" the most successful prime-ti...
ARDMORE, Pa. – Like many black Americans, Dorsey Jackson does not believe in gay marriage, but he wasn't disillusioned when Barack Obama became the first president to support it. The windows of his suburban Philadelphia barbershop still display an "Obama...
The late Manning Marable, author of "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention". Marable was posthumously awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History. Source: AP THE late Manning Marable won the Pulitzer Prize for history, honoured for a Malcolm X book he worked ...
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Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater will perform at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Picture: Higashino Mark Source: Supplied TWO sensational singers are set to bookend the 2012 Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Baritone Jose James is testing bound...
With his Loyola-Maryland team trailing by four points at halftime of the MAAC title game, coach Jimmy Patsos decided to give his players a history lesson with a halftime speech about Bobby Seale and the Black Panther Party. ''I said there are levels; the...
Over the past two months, rallies have been staged across the country in memory of Trayvon Martin , whose death in Florida at the hands of a neighborhood watch volunteer stirred the passions of the nation. Thousands of protesters — wearing hoodies, as Ma...
It's hard to describe Heiner Goebbels' homage to the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), whose descriptions of the natural world have been admired by generations of writers – from Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann to WH Auden and Marianne Moor...
GRAFTON — It was a graduation day of sorts Friday for inmates at the Grafton Correctional Institution who have been reading Shakespeare and the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X with students from Oberlin College. About 20 prisoners per...
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will host "Malcolm X Day: A Historic Homecoming" from 3-5 p.m. Saturday. The event includes an exhibit of Malcolm X artifacts and presentations by Herb Boyd, a former Detroiter, and Haki Madhubuti....
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History will commemorate Malcolm X's legacy with speakers, performers and more on Sat. May 19, 2012. The legacy of influential Civil Rights leader Malcolm X -- once known by the nickname "Detroit Red" -- h...
