The streets taught Geoffrey Canada hard lessons. His Harlem Children’s Zone is teaching success.
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When the Massachusetts team went South, its star black player came face-to-face with Jim Crow. And guess what the whole team did for Bunny?
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Children were to be “seen and not heard” until Arnold Gesell’s clinic changed childhood.
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Most toys were stupid and dull. But one company owned American childhood.
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From “behind the curtain of my mind,” the fabulous Belle da Costa Greene masterminded the Morgan Library.
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Think April is “the cruelest month?” E.E. Cummings will cure your despair.
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
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Building the Empire State Building took courage. So did taking the photos.
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Money. Angst. Ambition. Where can art’s true vision be found? In Baltimore, of course.
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Few battles had been so mismatched. A billionaire tycoon vs. a woman with a pen. The winner?
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In the Nenana Ice Classic, hope springs eternal, even where spring comes late
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Silent film was dead. Scandal tainted his career. His mother died. The Depression began. And Charlie Chaplin made “City Lights.”
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No verse was too light, no rhyme was too impossible for Ogden Nash.
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American art was pretty and pink until The Ashcan School took the streets as its canvas.
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As Texas grows and glows, Hill Country towns are dimming the lights and saving the night sky.
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80 years ago, the D.A.R. turned Marian Anderson away from Constitution Hall. Eleanor Roosevelt and friends found a better venue.
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