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Introduce young readers to American history

Mitt Romney. Barack Obama. The presidential race is on and we're bombarded with polls, commercials, and political ads pitting the two...

The frozen smile of hate crime

Over the past 2 1/2 years this writer has been the victim, or the intended victim, of a mind-boggling array of acts that are best defined as &ldquo...

Obama attends groundbreaking for national African American museum

On Wednesday in a ceremony on the National Mall with President Barack Obama in attendance, ground was broken for the buildingof the Smithsonian...

Close-up on "Clinton" and his legacy on DVD, and Blu-ray

The last thing one might expect a PBS two-part documentary on former president Bill Clinton to open with is Clinton’s December 11, 1998, Rose...

O beautiful for spacious skies

During the summer of 1893, somewhere within the 14,000’ elevation of Pikes Peak in Colorado, Katharine Lee Bates joined a group of teachers...

Rebecca Lee Davis was the first black American woman to become an M.D.

The daughter of Absolum Davis and Matilda Webber, Rebecca Lee Davis came into the world on February 8, 1831 in Delaware. While growing up, Rebecca...

Indy Film "More than a Month" questions the value of Black History Month

What are the colors of American History? Are they red, white, and blue? Or are they, red, white, black, brown, beige, tan, olive, yellow, and gray?...