Clark Gable
William Clark Gable was an American film actor, often regarded as The King of Hollywood or just simply as The King. Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for MGM in 1931. The next year he landed his first leading Hollywood role and became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures over the next three decades.
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We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie a renowned Nigerian novelist was born in Nigeria in 1977. She grew up in the university town of Nsukka, Enugu State where she attended primary and secondary schools, and briefly studied Medicine and Pharmacy. She then moved to the United States to attend college, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a major in Communication and a minor in Political Science. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale University. She was a 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, where she taught introductory fiction. Chimamanda is the author of Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the 2007 Orange Prize For Fiction; and Purple Hibiscus, which won the 2005 Best First Book Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the 2004 Debut Fiction Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2009, her collection of short stories, The Thing around Your Neck was published. She was named one of the twenty most important fiction writers today under 40 years old by The New Yorker and was recently the guest speaker at the 2012 annual commonwealth lecture. She featured in the April 2012 edition of Time Magazine, celebrated as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. She currently divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
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Kidnappers Lynched By Enraged Mob 1933/11/6
Kidnappers Lynched by enraged crowd after jail battle.
Special Announcement on the AIDS Memorial Quilt & Archives
Ahead of World AIDS Day 2019, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Congressman John Lewis announced the future of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and its archives at a special ceremony at the Library of Congress. The National AIDS Memorial will become the new caretaker of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and NAMES Project programs. As part of the transition, the NAMES Project and the National AIDS Memorial have agreed to jointly gift care and stewardship of the Quilt's archival collections to the prestigious American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, making this collection available to all through the world's largest public library.
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Tom Houck, Reflections on Georgia Politics
ROGP 087. Tom Houck interviewed by Bob Short, September 28, 2009.
Thomas Houck dropped out of high school at age 15 and joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to work under Hosea Williams. In 1965, he met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at a meeting of the SCLC, and in 1966 he came to Atlanta and became the King family's personal driver. Later, he became an organizer for the SCLC, and was active in numerous demonstrations and marches. His case, Houck and Williams vs. Birmingham-Jefferson County, led to the desegregation of Southern jails. Houck went on to help campaign for various Atlanta mayors and governors, including Maynard Jackson and Zell Miller, and started doing commentary for WGST Radio. Houck discusses his work with the SCLC, some personal experiences with the King family, his work on various campaigns, and the state of party politics in Georgia.
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Woodrow Wilson | Wikipedia audio article
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Woodrow Wilson
00:03:58 1 Early life
00:06:17 2 Education
00:09:04 3 Marriage and family
00:10:11 4 Personal interests
00:10:57 5 Academic career
00:13:08 6 Political science author
00:13:18 6.1 U.S. and British system contrast
00:17:53 6.2 Public administration
00:20:15 7 President of Princeton University
00:25:55 8 Governor of New Jersey
00:30:05 9 Presidential election of 1912
00:30:16 9.1 Democratic nomination
00:34:20 9.2 General election
00:37:43 10 Presidency (1913–1921)
00:37:54 10.1 First term (1913–1917)
00:43:22 10.1.1 Tariff legislation and income tax
00:44:19 10.1.2 Federal Reserve System
00:46:46 10.1.3 Antitrust and other measures
00:48:51 10.1.4 Mexican Revolution
00:49:55 10.1.4.1 Pancho Villa
00:51:32 10.1.5 Miners strike, wife's death and remarriage
00:54:29 10.1.6 Events leading to U.S. entry into World War I (1914–16)
01:00:59 10.2 Presidential election of 1916
01:05:46 10.3 Second term (1917–1921)
01:05:58 10.3.1 Entry into World War I
01:11:08 10.3.2 Home front
01:14:15 10.3.3 The Fourteen Points
01:15:22 10.3.4 Peace Conference 1919
01:19:10 10.3.5 Treaty fight, 1919
01:21:49 10.3.6 Post war: 1919–1920
01:23:22 10.3.7 Other foreign affairs
01:26:34 10.3.8 Incapacity
01:28:28 10.3.9 Prohibition
01:30:12 10.3.10 Women's suffrage
01:32:02 10.3.11 Post war economic depression
01:32:27 10.4 Administration and Cabinet
01:33:05 10.5 Judicial appointments
01:33:14 10.5.1 Supreme Court
01:33:58 10.5.2 Other courts
01:34:16 11 Final years and death
01:36:59 12 Race relations
01:43:12 13 Memorials
01:45:22 14 Works
01:46:21 15 Media
01:46:29 16 See also
01:47:02 17 Notes
01:47:11 18 Bibliography
01:47:20 18.1 Biographical
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and as Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. He also led the United States during World War I, establishing an activist foreign policy known as Wilsonianism. He was one of the three key leaders at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he championed a new League of Nations, but he was unable to win Senate approval for U.S. participation in the League.
Born in Staunton, Virginia, to a slaveholding family, Wilson spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina. His father was a leading Southern Presbyterian and helped to found the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. After earning a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University, Wilson taught at various schools before taking a position at Princeton. In 1910, Democratic leaders recruited him to run for Governor of New Jersey. Serving from 1911 to 1913, Wilson broke with party bosses and won the passage of several progressive reforms. Wilson's success in New Jersey gave him a national reputation as a progressive reformer, and his Southern roots helped him win favor in that region. After several ballots, the 1912 Democratic National Convention selected Wilson as the party's presidential nominee. Theodore Roosevelt's third-party candidacy split the Republican Party, which re-nominated incumbent President William Howard Taft. Wilson won the 1912 election with a plurality of the popular vote and a large majority in the Electoral College.
Upon taking office, Wilson called a special session of Congress, whose work culminated in the Revenue Act of 1913, introducing a federal income tax which provided revenue lost when tariffs were sharply lowered. He also presided over the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, which created a central banking system in the form of the Federal Reserve System. Other ma ...
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1996 Fiesta Bowl #1 Nebraska (11-0) vs. #2 Florida (12-0)
The 1996 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game in which the Nebraska Cornhuskers won the national championship for the 1995 college football season by defeating the Florida Gators, 62-24. Played on January 2, 1996, at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, the game matched the #1 and #2 ranked teams in the nation, respectively, Nebraska and Florida.
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Can We Talk About Race? A Conversation with Dr. Beverly Tatum
Dr. Beverly Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College, clinical psychologist and author of the best-selling book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: and Other Conversations About Race, spoke to the Boston University community on October 7th, 2019 in a moderated discussion entitled, Can We Talk About Race? The conversation was moderated by Dr. Michelle Porche, Clinical Associate Professor in Applied Human Development at BU Wheelock.
Video Outline:
At the 10:15 min point, Dr. Tatum begins discussion on the how the recent changes in the 4 Ps (population, politics, polarization, and psychology) has impacted race.
At 18:10 min – Historical and recent events from 1997 to 2017 that have influenced the social-psychology of individuals and peoples perspectives on race. (If you have her recent book, it’s in the Prologue)
At 29:24 min – How racism hurts white people, and uses up everyone’s psychological energy or cognitive bandwidth (this is where the entire audience shares their earliest race-related memories by a raise of hand). This is part of racial identity development. If you have her recent book, it’s starts on page 112).
At 40:33 min – Dr. Tatum talks about the importance of departments or institutions doing the ABCs – Affirming Identity; Building Community and Cultivating Leadership – and how to do that (This is where Dr. Tatum talks about calling safe spaces refueling or recharging spaces instead)
At 46:49 min – Dr. Tatum discusses how not being in a photograph illustrates the feeling of not having your identity affirmed.
48:48 min – The importance of the pictures and sayings that you have on the walls of your institution.
54:31 min – If you remember one thing from this talk …. and How do we cultivate the next generation of leaders to think in an inclusive way in the 21st century (The C of ABC’s)
1:02 min – The critical role of Boston University and higher education institutions in using class time to create spaces where multiple voices can get recognized – the value of structured dialogue during a semester and the “arc of discomfort”.
1:06 min - The importance of ongoing professional development and support (as an answer to question from BU Wheelock Doctoral student)
Dr. Tatum frequently speaks on racial identify development, race and education, strategies for creating inclusive campus environments, and higher education leadership.
Reggie Jean, Director for Upward Bound and Raul Fernandez, Associate Dean fora Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at BU Wheelock provided opening and closing remarks. The event was sponsored by the BU Wheelock Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Civil rights movement | Wikipedia audio article
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The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) in the United States was a decades-long movement with the goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already enjoyed. With roots starting in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century, the movement achieved its largest legislative gains in the mid-1960s, after years of direct actions and grassroots protests organized from the mid-1950s until 1968. Encompassing strategies, various groups, and organized social movements to accomplish the goals of ending legalized racial segregation, disenfranchisement, and discrimination in the United States, the movement, using major nonviolent campaigns, eventually secured new recognition in federal law and federal protection of all Americans.
After the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the 1860s, the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution granted emancipation and constitutional rights of citizenship to all African Americans, most of whom had recently been enslaved. For a period, African Americans voted and held political office, but they were increasingly deprived of civil rights, often under Jim Crow laws, and subjected to discrimination and sustained violence by whites in the South. Over the following century, various efforts were made by African Americans to secure their legal rights. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations and productive dialogues between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations, which highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans across the country. The lynching of Chicago teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi, and the outrage generated by seeing how he had been abused, when his mother decided to have an open-casket funeral, mobilized the African-American community nationwide. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts, such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–56) in Alabama; sit-ins such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina and successful Nashville sit-ins in Tennessee; marches, such as the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade and 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities.
Moderates in the movement worked with Congress to achieve the passage of several significant pieces of federal legislation that overturned discriminatory practices and authorized oversight and enforcement by the federal government. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 expressly banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment practices; ended unequal application of voter registration requirements; and prohibited racial segregation in schools, at the workplace, and in public accommodations. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 restored and protected voting rights for minorities by authorizing federal oversight of registration and elections in areas with historic under-representation of minorities as voters. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. African Americans re-entered politics in the South, and across the country young people were inspired to take action.
From 1964 through 1970, a wave of inner-city riots in black communities undercut support from the white middle class, but increased support from private foundations. The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted from about 1965 to 1975, challenged the established black leadership for its cooperative attitude and its practice of nonviolence. Instead, its leaders demanded that, in addition to the new laws gained through the nonviolent movement, political and economic self-suffici ...
2018 Spring Commencement
The 2018 Spring Commencement is the largest in TROY’s history. Nearly 950 graduates representing 26 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, and 10 countries outside the U.S. earned degrees. The keynote speaker was Alabama Governor Kay Ivey.
Zorro
Zorro (/ˈzɔːroʊ/; Spanish: [ˈθoro], American Spanish: [ˈsoro]) is a character created in 1919 by New York–based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media. Zorro (Spanish for fox) is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a Californio nobleman living in Los Angeles during the era of Spanish rule.
The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a dashing black-clad masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but also delights in publicly humiliating them.
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Judah P. Benjamin | Wikipedia audio article
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Judah P. Benjamin
00:02:30 1 Early and personal life
00:08:18 2 Louisiana lawyer
00:11:33 3 Electoral career
00:11:43 3.1 State politician
00:15:36 3.2 Mexican railroad
00:16:44 3.3 Election to the Senate
00:19:20 3.4 Spokesman for slavery
00:23:20 3.5 Secession crisis
00:27:55 4 Confederate statesman
00:28:04 4.1 Attorney General
00:31:39 4.2 Secretary of War
00:38:58 4.3 Confederate Secretary of State
00:39:26 4.3.1 Basis of Confederate foreign policy
00:41:49 4.3.2 Appointment
00:43:27 4.3.3 Early days (1862–1863)
00:48:14 4.3.4 Increasing desperation (1863–1865)
00:52:52 5 Escape
00:57:41 6 Exile
01:03:22 7 Appraisal
01:09:25 8 See also
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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced that faith, and was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America.
Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from London, who had moved to St. Croix in the Danish West Indies when it was occupied by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Seeking greater opportunities, his family immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Judah Benjamin attended Yale College but left without graduating. He moved to New Orleans, where he read law and passed the bar.
Benjamin rose rapidly both at the bar and in politics. He became a wealthy planter and slaveowner and was elected to and served in both houses of the Louisiana legislature prior to his election by the legislature to the US Senate in 1852. There, he was an eloquent supporter of slavery. After Louisiana seceded in 1861, Benjamin resigned as senator and returned to New Orleans.
He soon moved to Richmond after Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed him as Attorney General. Benjamin had little to do in that position, but Davis was impressed by his competence and appointed him as Secretary of War. Benjamin firmly supported Davis, and the President reciprocated the loyalty by promoting him to Secretary of State in March 1862, while Benjamin was being criticized for the rebel defeat at the Battle of Roanoke Island.
As Secretary of State, Benjamin attempted to gain official recognition for the Confederacy by France and the United Kingdom, but his efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. To preserve the Confederacy as military defeats made its situation increasingly desperate, he advocated freeing and arming the slaves late in the war, but his proposals were only partially accepted in the closing month of the war. When Davis fled the Confederate capital of Richmond in early 1865, Benjamin went with him. He left the presidential party and was successful in escaping from the mainland United States, but Davis was captured by Union troops. Benjamin sailed to Great Britain, where he settled and became a barrister, again rising to the top of his profession before retiring in 1883. He died in Paris the following year.
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Words at War: White Brigade / George Washington Carver / The New Sun
George Washington Carver (January 1864 -- January 5, 1943), was an American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. The exact day and year of his birth are unknown; he is believed to have been born into slavery in Missouri in January 1864.
Carver's reputation is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes, which also aided nutrition for farm families. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops both as a source of their own food and as a source of other products to improve their quality of life. The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts.[3] He also developed and promoted about 100 products made from peanuts that were useful for the house and farm, including cosmetics, dyes, paints, plastics, gasoline, and nitroglycerin. He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP.
During the Reconstruction-era South, monoculture of cotton depleted the soil in many areas. In the early 20th century, the boll weevil destroyed much of the cotton crop, and planters and farm workers suffered. Carver's work on peanuts was intended to provide an alternative crop.
He was recognized for his many achievements and talents. In 1941, Time magazine dubbed Carver a Black Leonardo.[4]
George Washington Carver reputedly discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes (a biofuel), ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain. Three patents (one for cosmetics; patent number 1,522,176, and two for paints and stains; patent numbers 1,541,478 and 1,632,365) were issued to George Washington Carver in the years 1925 to 1927; however, they were not commercially successful.[40] Aside from these patents and some recipes for food, Carver left no records of formulae or procedures for making his products.[41] He did not keep a laboratory notebook.
Carver's research was intended to provide replacements for commercial products, which were generally beyond the budget of the small one-horse farmer. A misconception grew that his research on products for subsistence farmers were developed by others commercially to change Southern agriculture.[42][43] Carver's work to provide them with resources for more independence from the cash economy foreshadowed the appropriate technology work of E.F. Schumacher.
NEH Celebrating Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial
The National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard University sponsor a public performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to mark the 150th anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. US Congressman John Lewis speaks about the struggle for freedom; Actors Alfre Woodard and Tyree Young read from writings on Emancipation; Howard University's Afro Blue jazz vocal ensemble performs.