Because of a $25 million gift, the venue, Verizon Hall, will be renamed to honor Anderson, a pioneering Black opera singer. Marian Anderson, the renowned contralto and civil rights figure…
To honor the famous singer and civil rights activist, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts will be renamed Marian Anderson Hall Singer and civil rights activist…
The recent hit docudrama on Netflix, Einstein and the Bomb, explores the conflict felt by the father of atomic energy insofar as his being an ardent pacifist, but also Jewish,…
He was born Walker Smith, Jr. But fight fans know him as the great Hall of Fame boxer, Sugar Ray Robinson. His long career as a professional went from 1940…
Dick "Night Train" Lane played 14 years in the NFL, and the fact that so many of the records he set as cornerback known for ferocious tackles during the 1950's…
Said The New York Times of Raquel Welch: "A marvelous, breathtaking tribute to womankind."
Dodgers great Hall of Fame pitcher, Don Drysdale, died of a heart attack in 1993. 31 years later, during the 2024 NBA All-Star Game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, his widow, Anne…
June 2 is now Lou Gehrig Day in baseball. This event has been established to bring awareness to the rare neurodegenerative affliction which felled the great New York Yankees star…
Director Elia Kazan on James Dean in East of Eden: "He had violence in him, he had a hunger within him, and he was himself the boy he played in…
The derby that Matthew "Stymie" Beard Jr. wore in the wonderful Our Gang comedies he made was given to him by Stan Laurel. Of course the Laurel & Hardy comedies…
