Aug. 19: Ruth Colvin, who taught the world to read, is dead at 107 Aug. 28: Leonard Riggio, who built Barnes & Noble into a bookselling empire, dies at 83 July 30: Crime Ring – The Story of the Sports World Most Infamous Thief Aug. 1: Inmate Gets 51 Months in Prison for Gangs...
"Sandy" aged 69, died on Friday, April 10, 2015 in Dover-Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, of cancer. He was born in Norwalk, Conn., on October 19, 1945, son of the late George Sanders Niles and Elizabeth (Meader) Niles. He was the husband of Cheryl Bucklin, formerly of New Castle, N...
The Atlanta DJ/producer and king of crunk has done more than take parties to the next level — he has invested in the educational future of children in Africa by building two schools in Ghana with the non-profit organization Pencils of Promise. He c...
were either fully or partly to blame for their own persecution. Or aboutviolent reactions to racially integrating schools in the Northern states. Or aboutwhite flight, past or present. The Oklahoma City bombing was taught as tragic, militia groups were framed as crazy, but there were no lessons...
Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born as a slave and, before his freedom, taught himself and other slaves illegally to read and write. After he found his freedom he came a social reformer, orator, statesman, and a best-selling author. ...
As the great abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass once observed, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.” What is now at risk in the climate debate is nothing less than our ability to communicate with one another according to a protocol that binds all...
The Taking of Jake Livingstonby Ryan Douglass (13th) Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can’t decide what’s worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the ...
the ease with which Genevieve Greener and their children mingled with Caucasians had tongues wagging. Richard Greener did not shy from the spotlight aimed at black activists. He was paid for speaking engagements, including debates with Frederick Douglass, who was much his senior. Greener endorsed ra...
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she organized and led the effort to pay off the mortgage on Frederick Douglass's home and pledged $5,000 to the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign in 1919. Each of these gifts constituted the largest single donation made by an individual at the time—a frequent characteristic of her charitable ...