Ready to play the Saint Saens Piano Concerto #2 with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Dawn Bailiff stepped onstage, bowed with the conductor to the sound of applause, sat at the piano, and began to play. But what was happening? Her hands... Read More

More than three thousand memoirs by Holocaust survivors have been published. After a long silence, those who lived through the horrors of Nazi brutality now seem to be almost frantically rushing to preserve the dire tale of their... Read More

In 1936 when Ted Postern was hired at the New York Post he became the first African American to cross the color line onto a ?white? newspaper. By the time of his retirement in 1972, he was widely known as “the dean of Black... Read More