Burned out, Richards bowed out of the entertainment industry in early adulthood to concentrate on raising her children, but she lit up television screens once again in 2010, when she joined the cast of the hit reality show "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." 1976: Jodie Foster Sophia ...
Atlanta was burnt to the ground during the civil war. OnNovember 15, 1864, the capital of Georgia was burned to the ground by Confederate forces under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman. After the Confederates left the city there were less than half of the buildings left standing...
Hip-hop icon Fab 5 Freddy once said of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, "Jean-Michel lived like a flame. He burned really bright. Then the fire went out. But the embers are still hot." Whether as a graffiti artist or a leading light in the burgeoning Neo-expressionist movement of the earl...
Matthew Leonard, born Nov. 26, 1929, in Eutaw, Greene County, Ala. The husband and father of five died at age 37 from wounds received in the Vietnam War. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, which was accepted Christmas week by his wife Lois Leonard, according tothe Atlanta Constitution....
During theCivil War, the city was burned and almost completely destroyed while occupied by Gen.William T. Sherman's troops in Nov. 1864. It was rebuilt after the war and grew rapidly due to the expansion of the railroads in the southwest. ...
Gen. John Bell Hood and his men were forced to evacuate Atlanta destroying as many supplies and munitions as they could before Sherman took Atlanta and ultimately burned what was left of it to the ground. With 60,000 men, he began his celebrated "March to the Sea," ripping through ...
Some states required separate textbooks for Black and white students.New Orleansmandated the segregation of prostitutes according to race. In Atlanta, African Americans in court were given a different Bible from white people to swear on. Marriage and cohabitation between white and Black people was st...
These are images burned so far into into my psyche and I’m so afraid I’ll always have to live with your ghost, but not be able to feel your spirit. I’m afraid to say that I miss you because that means that you’re really gone. I’m afraid to feel the absence. The pit. Th...
The only non-rap feature onMadvillainycomes from Stacy Epps, who sings through the entirety of “Eye.” Epps revealed onInstagram Livea few years ago that she was just in the car with DOOM, Madlib, and John Robinson in Atlanta when they were playing beats, and DOOM asked her if she wan...
At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, it cost nearly $200 million just to pay for security. Despite this expense, one person died and 110 were injured at the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.[11] Nagano bid committee members ordered official accounts to be burned ...