The taxi ride from the stylish hotel where Joe Frazier lives to the stripped-down, shuttered gym where his name is carved into its stone façade is a tale of two cities. The Joe Frazier Gym, large for-sale signs peering out of every window, once the meeting place of the neighborhood’s young men who hoped to [...]
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What could be just as special as being one of 12 and the very last man to walk on the moon? Watching the awe and wonder on your grandchild’s face when you first tell her about this out-of-this-world adventure. That was the experience of former astronaut Eugene Cernan one summer evening as he looked up [...] Susan L. Taylor. To many, her name and face are synonymous with Essence Magazine, the African-American women’s magazine where as a single mother she started as a freelance beauty editor in 1970. It would take her 11 years to rise to editor in chief before climbing to the top of the masthead in 2000, where [...] Welcome to the summer of passion. For seventeen-year-old Jory Michaels, that means three sun-and-fun filled months of spending time with her best friends, obsessing over her crush, trying to find something she is passionate about, and…saving for a nose job. Jory is determined to lose the big, honking, bumpy monstrosity she calls the Super Schnozz-the [...] Think of the word “crystal” and you naturally conjure up images of elegance and beauty. And that’s what you think when you hear the name Crystal Gayle. The Grammy-winning, platinum recording artist made country music “cool,” in the words of one reviewer, and thrust that genre into the mainstream listening audience as never before. Although [...] Ronnie Milsap talks with Mary Ann Cooper about his passion for his music and his family Country And R&B legend Ronnie Milsap was born blind and into extreme poverty in the Appalachian town of Robbinsville, North Carolina. Unwilling to accept her newborn’s blindness, Ronnie’s mother gave him to his grandparents to raise when he was [...] Puff, the Magic dragon, bent his head in sorrow, lost his green scales and slipped off into his cave after Jackie Paper “came no more,” but that’s only the song. In the new book, based on the lyrics written by Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton and illustrated, magically, by Eric Puybaret, Puff finds a new [...] |
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