“Doctor Shepherd!” “Good evening, Doug. May I come in?” The lady standing at the door of Doug Miller’s apartment looked like a lovable grandmother. But looks can be deceiving. Virginia Shepherd was a physicist, and one of the sharpest minds in her field in the entire world. She was Doug’s… Continue reading
Have you seen Audrey Hepburn in that television commercial for Galaxy, the British chocolate maker? The ad is beautifully shot, and Audrey appears just as beautiful as ever—despite the fact that she’d been dead for 20 years when the ad was made. It’s a great technical achievement—but I find myself… Continue reading
Rommel’s Afrika Korps Comes to America On June 4, 1943, residents of Mexia, Texas, witnessed a sight never before seen in their community. A troop of 1,850 uniformed soldiers marched confidently down the main street of the town. According to historian Arnold Krammer, the young men were tanned and healthy,… Continue reading
My snoring becomes a wake-up call It was my snoring that finally caused me to do something about my sleep problem. At first, when my wife told me I was an extremely loud snorer, we both treated it as something of a joke. To be honest, I didn’t really believe… Continue reading
CPAP and African Americans Black people don’t like CPAP machines. Actually, nobody does, but Black people dislike them more than anybody else. And that’s a real problem, because Blacks are the group that need them the most. CPAP Can Be a Life Saver CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) therapy is… Continue reading
A Different and Unexpected Story My original title for this article was to be “Whatever Happened To Tokyo Rose?” She was the infamous American-born radio personality who made propaganda broadcasts for the Japanese that were intended to destroy the morale of Americans fighting in the Pacific during World War II…. Continue reading
A Football Star With a Bright Future In 2002, Brian Banks was a 16-year-old high school football star with a seemingly unlimited future ahead of him. At 6’1″ and 240 lbs., the linebacker had verbally committed to playing college football at the University of Southern California, one of the biggest… Continue reading
“The Sound of Young America” That’s what Motown Records named itself, and it had good reason to claim that title. Berry Gordy’s fledgling record company burst on the scene in January 1959 and dominated the world of popular music for the next two decades. During the 1960s alone, Motown put… Continue reading
Dr. Simon Morton leaned back in his chair and let out a sigh of satisfaction. The final set of simulations was done, and he had his answer. He’d used the supercomputer time allocated to his project to run millions of simulations with all possible combinations of variables, and the result… Continue reading
Martha and the Vandellas Helped Define the Motown Sound When Motown Records burst onto the scene in the early 1960s, it changed the face of popular music forever. Billing itself as “the sound of young America,” Motown was the seedbed for a group of extraordinary artists, including the Temptations, the… Continue reading