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Michael B. Jordan

Name at birth: Michael Bakari JordanBefore he was Adonis Johnson of Creed, Michael B. Jordan was known to TV viewers as Wallace, a sensitive, troubled teen and drug dealer on The Wire, back in 2002…

Michael Vick

Michael Vick is the NFL quarterback jailed in 2007 for his role in illegal dog fighting. An outstanding athlete, Vick began attracting scouts while playing high school football in Newport News,…

Reeva Steenkamp

Reeva Steenkamp is the model who was shot to death by her boyfriend, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, at his home in South African on the morning of February 14, 2013. Pistorius was sent to prison…

Midseason TV

Fox Fox's retro risk That '70s Show Fox, which hit the jackpot last year with comedies Ally McBeal and King of the Hill, has hit the skids this year with its selection of new sitcoms. In fact…

Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin was a black teenager who challenged Alabama's segregation laws in 1955 and was arrested, nine months before Rosa Parks made history for doing the same thing. Colvin was 15 years old…

Lakeith Stanfield

Actor Lakeith Stanfield played informant Bill O'Neal in the film Judas and the Black Messiah and was nominated for an Oscar when he was just 29 years old. Stanfield had already racked up an…

Iraq Crisis, 2005

by Borgna Brunner 1920s–1999 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 Next: 2006 Jan. 4, 2005 Ali al-Haidari, governor of…

De Maizière, Lothar

(Encyclopedia) De Maizière, LotharDe Maizière, Lotharlōˈtär də mīˌzyĕˈzəs [key], 1940–, the first and last freely elected prime minister of the (East) German Democratic Republic. He joined the puppet…

Low, Seth

(Encyclopedia) Low, Seth, 1850–1916, American political reformer and college president, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Columbia, 1870. He entered his father's tea and silk importing firm, but became…