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Through this speech, she made history as the first Black woman to write and read a poem at an inauguration ceremony for a U.S. president. "Lift up your eyes upon this day breaking for you. Give ...
Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 – April 5, 1928) was an American attorney, businessman, and Republican politician. He is best remembered for his two terms as United States Senator from New York and for his work for Cornelius Vanderbilt, as an attorney and as president of the New York Central Railroad System.
1979: A speech on U.S. energy policy by President Jimmy Carter speaks of a "crisis of confidence" among the country's public, and comes to be known as the "malaise" speech, despite Carter not using that word in the address. 1983: Evil Empire, a phrase used in speeches by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to refer to the Soviet Union.
Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles, in Depew, New York) [6] grew up in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Fosdick-Masten Park High School in 1953. [7] She attended Howard University with a scholarship from 1953 to 1955, leaving to study at the State University of New York at Fredonia (near Buffalo).
NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" marks an incredible five decades on the air this year. ELLE enlisted Mikey Day to get a behind-the-scenes look at the women who make our weekends.
The best moments from Hillary Clinton's DNC speech In a moment that will be cemented in history, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be a major political party's nominee for president.
Great Moments in Presidential Speeches was a near-daily segment which presented a series of three video excerpts. Originally, the first two come from actual famous moments, Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugural speech ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself") and John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech ("Ask not what your country can do for you ...
In addition to the testimony by women who have appeared in public, the committee’s recent hearings have featured clips of videotaped depositions given by several other young women who worked in ...