One of our first falcon chicks has hatched! Watch live.
March 17, 2010
PANGEA Alliance Dear Libros Lege Participant: Another Libros Lege Contest is upon us. The signup for the Third Annual Libros Lege Read-Aloud Contest opens on today, Monday, March 1st and closes Wednesday, March 31st. The first day of readings will be on Saturday, April 10th. As usual, the entire contest will take place at Eisenhower […]
March 16, 2010
The entire senior class at Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation. Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman surprised students at an all-school assembly at Urban Prep Academy for […]
March 16, 2010
By Ruth Manuel-Logan on Mar 2nd 2010 12:09PM Paula and Peter Imafidon are just like any other 9-year-olds. They love laughing, playing on the computer and fighting with each other. What sets these twins apart from their peers, though, is that they are, hands down, prodigies who are about to enter high school and make […]
March 14, 2010
Coolidge Senior High School in Washington, DC has just named Natalie Randolph as their head football coach. A biology and environmental sciences teacher, and former receiver for the DC Divas of the National Women’s Football Association, Ms. Randolph is only the nation’s second female head coach of a boys’ varsity high school football team. You […]
March 12, 2010
Tina Brown, founder and editor-in-chief of popular news website The Daily Beast, is hosting an historic three day summit of 300 “impressive, brave, pioneering” women leaders to address women’s issues. Brava! (SR) Read all about it
March 12, 2010
Who are the first people that come to mind when you think of the Montgomery bus boycotts of the 1950s? Rosa Parks played a pivotal role, to be sure. But nine months before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, a 15-year-old girl named Claudette Colvin did the same. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZOpqtdd8nw&hl=en_US&fs=1&] […]
March 11, 2010
In another instance of a woman belatedly getting due credit for her work, the Society for American Baseball Research (SARB) decided to acknowledge Dorothy Jane Mills, right, as co-author with her late husband, Harold Seymour, for a highly influential three-volume history of baseball that she co-wrote and for which he took sole credit. This New York Times feature tells how Mills, 81, fumed […]
March 10, 2010
In 2005, three thousand dancers, actors, and singers attended an open call in New York City for the first Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, one of the most successful and beloved musicals ever created. They came from all over the world, drawn by the chance to show off their talents to a room of […]
March 9, 2010
Last year while shelving CDs at the library, I stumbled across a disc by the Boswell Sisters called That’s How the Rhythm Was Born. I had never heard of the Boswell Sisters before, but something about the song titles and the old photograph on the album cover enticed me to take a chance on the […]
March 7, 2010
Former Tribune writer Evan Osnos profiles Mayor Daley in the March 8, 2010 issue of The New Yorker. “I’d been interested in Daley since I lived in Chicago a decade ago . . . and, after moving to China, I started encountering him in Beijing more often than I saw most American pols. . . […]
