News Source: The Huffington Post
| 9 days ago
I read with interest all the stories this week about the late Studs Terkel and his FBI file. To my dismay, they pretended to discover the ironic revelation that Terkel actually applied to work for the FBI in the early 1930s. I scratched my head,
News Source: Epoch Times
| 9 days ago
TV personality Oprah Winfrey hosts "The Oprah Winfrey Show: Fridays Live From New York" at Rumsey Playfield on September 18, 2009 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) The long-running and ground-breaking "Oprah Winfrey Show" will air
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 21 days ago
Upwards of 200 people marched from Richmond High School to nearby Wendell Park, where speakers decried violence against women and what they see as the social forces that take such behavior in stride. "Men need to speak to other men and say, 'Stop,' "
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| 23 days ago
Knuckling under to the Daley administration, the city's landmarks commission Thursday rejected a recommendation that the former Michael Reese Hospital campus on the Near South Side be designated a historic property. The Commission on Chicago
News Source: East Bay Express
| 25 days ago
Most recently, he ran a couple of Oakland dives: Bigum's Silver Lion and the Golden Bull. Both have since closed, but Perry is now launching a more luxurious venue just north of Chinatown. Perry hopes to attract a share of the area's burgeoning
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 26 days ago
Dancing in the Dark A Cultural History of the Great Depression Images (W.W. Norton; $29.95; 598 pages) The specter of communism haunted America in the 1930s, and would not fade away...Dickstein covers the 1930s thoroughly, moving gracefully from
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 27 days ago
Sizemore distinguished professor at Duquesne University's School of Education. Dr. Ball said teachers, especially those in urban schools across the nation, need to start understanding that African-American speech is its own language, with specialized
News Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
| about 1 month ago
The City Attorney's Office will consolidate some of its offices to save the city of San Diego $217,000 annually as it faces a mammoth budget deficit. City Attorney Jan Goldsmith plans to move the domestic violence unit from the San Diego Family