by admin | Jun 9, 2013 | HISTORY
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune was the first Black woman to head a federal agency, National Youth Administration. She was the founder of Bethune Cookman College and held many important government positions under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman. by Sharon...
by admin | Jun 9, 2013 | HISTORY
The Military man of the Hour by Elizabeth Singleton More than 400,000 American soldiers are in the Saudi Arabian Gulf at this time. Morale among the troops was reported high, the climate in the Middle East is violent, and American emotions mixed about continued U.S....
by admin | Jun 9, 2013 | FILM
A Biography At age 12, growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, Arsenio Hall told his mother he wanted “to do what Johnny Carson does.” At age 30, Hall is doing just that, as the host and executive producer of “The Arsenio Hall Show,” the hour-long,...
by admin | Jun 8, 2013 | MUSIC
On The Making of Rhythm Nation “Before I ever started work on Rhythm Nation, I knew that I didn’t want to make another album like Control. Control was about my life; Rhythm Nation is about what’s going on in the world around us. The theme of the...
by admin | Jun 8, 2013 | MUSIC
by Anne Tedards I would be fooling myself,” Marian Anderson once wrote, “to think that I was meant to be a fearless fighter; I was not meant to be a soprano instead of a contralto.” Nevertheless, in the spring of 1939, Anderson found herself in the...
