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Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'K18M5XfERblAKjq5yWRoKg',sig:'IGuOFCpitTM51uNqD0eBd9-SKzpz_63Qie5vILvX_PU=',w:'594px',h:'436px',items:'515025468',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); Arthur Miller was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956, as HUAC’s power was waning. He was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to identify people who he had met at two communist writers’ ...

Anna May Wong, the first Asian American woman movie star, had a long and varied career spanning silent and sound film, stage, radio, and television, while resisting racism and typecasting in Hollywood, and the practice of having white actors in yellow face play the roles ...

An early participant in the environmental movement, U.S.-born Mexican American Ynés Mexía began her scientific career at age 51, leading botanical expeditions across Mexico, Central America, and South America. She became one of the most accomplished plant collectors of her time, discovering over 500 new ...

Terrence McNally's prolific career as a playwright spanned sixty decades, over forty plays, and several Tony Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Award. Here’s a look at some of the standout plays from his long career. Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de ...

Lillian Moller Gilbreth is the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the first female engineering professor at Purdue University. She worked to invent time and motion studies with her husband Frank, and elevated women’s labor in the domestic sphere with her ...

Playwright, librettist, scriptwriter and outspoken LGBTQ activist Terrence McNally has died at 81 from complications due to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. McNally long believed in the power of the arts to transform society and make a difference. Over the course of ...

A full 50 years before the Montgomery bus boycott, civil rights activist and entrepreneur Maggie Lena Walker led a city-wide boycott against segregated streetcars in Richmond, VA, and founded a newspaper, department store, and the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, making her the first African ...

In this clip from the KICA-TV show WYLD RYCE (1977), the Wolverines Classic Jazz Orchestra along with the Ozone Dance Company is introduced host Don Blue. In this extravaganza, they pay tribute to “the late, great Duke Ellington” with a performance of Mood Indigo. Annie Lennox ...

  Duke Ellington’s signature composition was “Take the A Train,” written by his frequent collaborator Billy Strayhorn. The song brought Ellington and his band financial success, became his “theme” song that he would perform regularly for the rest of his life, and is still one ...