The Pixel Painter from The Pixel Painter on Vimeo. Hal Lasko, age 97, first started creating art with Microsoft Paint back when Windows 95 was still popular. The legally blind grandfather was drawn to computers as an artistic medium because the 18-year-old software enabled him to zoom in on hi... Read more...
Traditionally, a summer job is many teenagers’ first experience in the job market. Yet the past decade has witnessed a significant deterioration in the summer job market for adolescents ages 16-19. Despite the persistence of low teen summer employment, and a history of bipartisan support for pro... Read more...
The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II Director: Robert Markowitz Writers: Paris Qualles (teleplay), Trey Ellis (teleplay), and 3 more credits » Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Al... Read more...
The man known for creating the nationally syndicated comic strip The Boondocks in the late 1990s also has his hands in a film being released this weekend. Aaron McGruder, the controversial man with wide-ranging opinions on a vast variety of subjects, co-wrote Red Tails. The project, financed by fil... Read more...
A black Navy veteran credited with saving the lives of some of his shipmates during a World War II battle will be getting a long-awaited medal for his heroism, a Northern California congresswoman said. Carl Clark, 95, will be awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with the Combat Dist... Read more...
Trenton's New Black Panther Party on Thursday denounced a neo-Nazi rally set for tomorrow at the Statehouse, across from New Jersey’s World War II Memorial, and urged community members to join them in a counterprotest. Speaking at the city’s Veterans Memorial on South Broad Street, Panthe... Read more...
Ralph Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the Prize. Bunche chaired the Department of Political Science at Howard University... Read more...
Nearly a dozen sculptures considered by the Nazis to be "degenerate" artwork and believed to have been lost or destroyed after World War II have been unearthed during construction near Berlin's city hall and were shown to reporters Monday. The terra-cotta and bronze statues were found during a di... Read more...