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...W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, the oldest research center in the country dedicated to African and African American studies, has seen its fair share of greats. And last Friday, the center added writer and critic Albert Murray to its list, awarding him its highest honor, the Du Bois Medal...
Murray is a 90-year-old novelist and poet widely known for his commentary on jazz and American culture. The center awards the medal each year for “contributions to African or African American studies,” according to Du Bois Institute Manager of Events and Publications Dell M. Hamilton...
...RECENT YEARS SHE SHONE brightly as a National Medal of Arts honoree and elegant, tireless philanthropist. But the long career of effervescent singer-actress Kitty Carlisle Hart spanned media from film (the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera, Woody Allen's Radio Days) to stage (On Your Toes) to opera (Die Fledermaus, her 1966 debut at the Met). Hart, whose husband was playwright Moss Hart, was best known for her 1956-67 stint as a lively celebrity panelist on TV's To Tell the Truth...
...back of the net for a goal that bore no consequence other than being something the two of us could laugh triumphantly about on the walk home.I know that I was inducted into the National Honor Society sometime near the end of high school. I remember winning the silver medal in the 55-meter hurdles at the CHSAA Brooklyn-Queens sophomore championships with a time of 9.6 seconds. I remember that there were only four other runners, that the only good one was the kid who beat me by over a second, and that it didn’t matter...
Last month, President Bush saluted the famed Tuskegee airmen as they received the Congressional Gold Medal, affirming that the sacrifice and service of African-Americans had finally been granted its place of honor in the nation's remembrance of World War II. But Hispanic Americans of the Greatest Generation are still battling for acknowledgment, and their fight has now embroiled celebrated documentarian Ken Burns and PBS television...