This lauded drama follows the Youngers, an African-American family living together in an apartment in Chicago. Following the death of their patriarch, they try to determine what to do with the substantial insurance payment they'll soon receive. Opinions on what to do with the money vary. Walte...
Melissa Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), better known by her stage name Lizzo, is an American alternative hip hop artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a founding member of indie hip hop groups The Chalice, Grrrl Prty, The Clerb, Ellypseas, and Absynthe. Her debut album, Lizzo...
Jefferson Morris Gill (born December 22, 1960) is Distinguished Professor of Government, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, the Director of the Center for Data Science, the Editor of Political Analysis, and a member of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at American University as of the Fal...
It was one of the bright spots of the Democrat’s night, but it was entirely expected as Cao only won two years ago b/c most of the Bill Jefferson’s voters didn’t know he hadn’t already won the election. Cao always was an odd-ball, with his significant votes coming in the ...
Jefferson Memorial (1934-43) Designed by John Russell Pope, Otto R. Eggers and Daniel P. Higgins, and inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, the monument features a unique round dome, a circular colonnade, and Corinthian order.Gothic Revival Architecture in America (c.1800-1900) In part a conse...
Education and justice are democracy’s only life insurance — Nannie Helen Burroughs Although we are eight days into the month of November, I came to my senses and decidednotto post every day for NaBloPoMo 2022. It took me a few days, but I realized that I don’t want to post for ...
In this inaugural list, Inc. and Grant Thornton have teamed up to create an exclusive roster of the 1,000 largest, most vital American companies that are not public. These companies maintain growth and relevance as they continue to thrive....
And in the 1850s, Burnham noted, the nation’s Secretary of War and eventual president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, had brought African camels to the deserts of the American Southwest, convinced that they would outperform horses as pack animals on that terrain. And they did—the ...
came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his Party was taking the Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland down the road under the banners of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. And he walked away from his Party, and he never returned til the day he died -- because to...
formerly enslaved by Joseph and Jefferson Davis. Residents of the town took pride in the fact that African Americans owned all of the property in town, including banks, insurance companies, shops, and the surrounding farms. The town celebrated African American cultural and economic achievements durin...