By Brenda June Temple WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Barbara Lynn Herzstein, better known as Barbara Hershey (born February 5, 1948), is an American actress. In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including westerns […]
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Black History Month Feature: Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary War Hero
By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent, who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution. While he is widely remembered as […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, February 4, 2024
By StephanieLee FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Natalie Jane Imbruglia (/ɪmˈbruːliə/ im-BROO-lee-ə, Italian: [imˈbruʎʎa]; born 4 February 1975) is an Australian-British singer and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, she began a singing career with her cover of Ednaswap‘s song “Torn” which was a […]
Northwestern Wildcats Men’s Basketball: Dynamic Boo Buie Named to Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Top 10 List
By Sasha Colcheck 1/29/2024 FULL BOB COUSY RELEASE https://www.hoophall.com/news/naismith-basketball-hall-of-fame-announces-top-10-candidates-for-the-2024-bob-cousy-award/ EVANSTON, Ill. – Northwestern guard Boo Buie has been named one of the top 10 candidates for the 2024 Bob Cousy Award, The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced on Monday. Named after Class of 1971 Hall […]
Actor Don Murray, known for roles in Bus Stop, The Outcasts, Knots Landing and Twin Peaks, dies at 94
By Marie Reader Donald Patrick Murray (July 31, 1929 – February 2, 2024) was an American actor best known for his breakout performance in the film Bus Stop (1956, with Marilyn Monroe), which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films include A Hatful of […]
Actor Carl Weathers, known for Roles in Rocky Movies, In the Heat of the Night & The Mandalorian, dead at 76
By StephanieLee Elliott FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Carl Weathers (January 14, 1948 – February 1, 2024) was an American actor, director and football linebacker. His roles included boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films (1976–1985), Colonel Al Dillon in Predator (1987), and Combat Carl in the Toy Story franchise. He also portrayed Det. Beaudreaux in the television series Street […]
Black History Month Feature: Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on the Bus
By Danielle Daniels FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother […]
Daily Almanac for Saturday, February 3, 2024
By Danielle Daniels FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Morgan Fairchild (born Patsy Ann McClenny; February 3, 1950, ) is an American actress. She began acting in the early 1970s and has had roles in several television series since. Fairchild began her career on the CBS daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Jennifer Pace from 1973 […]
Black History Month Feature: Benjamin Banneker, a Jack-of-all Trades Man
By Lady Houston Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American mother and a father who had formerly been enslaved, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. […]
Daily Almanac for Friday, February 2, 2024: Groundhog Day
By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Christie Lee Brinkley (née Hudson; born February 2, 1954) is an American model, actress, and entrepreneur. Brinkley gained worldwide fame with her appearances in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, ultimately appearing on an unprecedented three consecutive covers in 1979, 1980, and 1981. She spent 25 […]
BLACK HISTORY MONTH FEATURE: Civil Rights Pioneer Julian Bond
By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent […]
Daily Almanac for Thursday, February 1, 2024
By Marie Reader WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer. His musical career began in 2010 as part of One Direction, a boy band formed on the British music competition series The X Factor after each member of the band had been eliminated […]
Tony Award winning Actress, Singer, Dancer Chita Rivera dies at 91
By Vickie Sellers FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero Anderson (January 23, 1933 – January 30, 2024), known professionally as Chita Rivera, was an American actress, singer, and dancer. Rivera received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, and a Drama League Award. She was […]
Daily Almanac for Wednesday, January 31, 2024
By Vickie Sellers FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian-American retired actress. She played Nelle Porter on the American drama series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the […]
Daily Almanac for Tuesday, January 30, 2024
By Marisol Nicholson FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Philip David Charles Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, drummer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band Genesis and had a successful solo career, achieving three […]
Daily Almanac for Monday, January 29, 2024
By Annie Walker FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970) is an American actress. After appearing in television commercials, her first starring role in a feature film came with the teen comedy License to Drive (1988), followed by the critically acclaimed film Drugstore Cowboy (1989). She then played supporting […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, January 28, 2024
By Mariana Smithfield FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan’s best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards. In […]
Daily Almanac for Saturday, January 27, 2024
By Brenda June Temple FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with […]
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Brenda June Temple FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of […]
Daily Almanac for Thursday, January 25, 2024
By StephanieLee FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer and songwriter. A classically trained pianist, Keys started composing songs when she was 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Columbia Records. After disputes with the […]