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...addition to the sweatshirt, Latifah also received a plaque to commemorate her artistic and humanitarian achievements over the past year. These include her Academy Award-nominated performance in Chicago, as well as her continuing participation in the Lancelot H. Owens Scholarship Foundation, a program she started to provide inner-city students with access to college education...
This year, Queen Latifah holds the distinction of being the sole nominated actor of color, which comes as a disappointment of sorts following a banner year for African-Americans at the Academy Awards. In 2002, for the first time in history, two black actors took home the top acting awards. Denzel Washington won the Best Actor award for Training Day, while Halle Berry took the Best Actress prize for her work in Monster’s Ball...
...Alaska, all states are required to set standards within the core academic areas and then test their students in alignment with these standards. In schools with unsatisfactory scores, students may opt to attend other schools within the area; in schools with adequate scores, high-scoring students may receive award money. Given these outcomes, the standardized tests are not just for assessment purposes. More correctly, they operate as high-stakes mechanisms of punishment and reward, for schools that fail or succeed according to the standards...
Brown, now a Grammy award-winning artist and CEO of her own label, took a roundabout path to banjo stardom. After pre-med flirtation at Harvard, there was an MBA and a stint as an investment banker at Smith Barney. Ultimately, she traded in stocks and bonds for three-finger picking and shows at the Grand Ole Opry...
...daughter’s music career at first, Brown says her parents have definitely accepted it. Perhaps it was the two trips to Radio City Music Hall to see their daughter on the Grammy acceptance podium. Brown took home the 2001 “Best Country Instrumental” award for her song “Leaving Cottondale.” Brown’s mom even chose her daughter’s dress, a strapless number she found on the clearance rack at Sak?...