Lorraine Hansberry was a playwright, born in Chicago. She is best known as the author of A Raisin in the Sun. A Broadway success and later a movie, the novel explored the struggles of a black family to escape from the ghetto. Hansberry died prematurely in 1965, before she was able to fulfill her promise […] Read more

Best known for A Raisin In The Sun, writer, and playwright Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago. The novel the play and the movie were based on centers around a black family and their struggles to escape life in the ghetto. She was only 34 when she died in 1965, unable to complete her promise […] Read more

For almost a century, the great ships were forgotten. Then, in 1985, an underwater explorer named Robert Ballard, found the most luxury liner of them all. And we began to remember them again. This is the story of the rise and fall of the great ocean liners, and one man’s journey to encounter them again […] Read more

1st person: Hey Russell, how’s the fishin’? 2nd Person: Well, yesterday I caught a ten foot shark. Yep, and inside I found a pair of pants. 1st person: My goodness. 2nd person: Yep, and inside them pants was a wallet. 1st. Person: Wait a minute. 2nd person: Inside that wallet was a winning cash five […] Read more

Millions of people tuned in last night to see if they had picked the lucky numbers. At stake: a jackpot worth 363 million dollars. An estimated 30-40 million Americans bought tickets for the so-called big game — a lottery sponsored and managed by seven states — Georgia, Virginia, Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts. […] Read more

A transcript of Lou Gehrig’s iconic speech: “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from […] Read more

Louisa May Alcott was the second of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May. Her father was a renowned educator and transcendentalist philosopher and her mother was a descendant of a prominent Boston family. Alcott wrote novels and stories for adults and was a pioneer of realistic fiction for children. One of […] Read more

Writer. Born November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the second of four daughters of Amos Bronson Alcott, a noted transcendentalist philosopher and educator, and Abigail May, a descendant of one of Boston’s more prominent families. Though she produced adult novels and stories as well, Alcott is most celebrated for her children’s fiction, which includes the […] Read more

Hugh Grant in Love Actually (2003) Whenever I get gloomy about the state of the world, I think about the Heathrow Airport arrivals gate. The general opinion says that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it’s not particularly […] Read more