Movies
Spike Lee says he’s seen progress in the way blacks are portrayed in film since his 1986 feature debut, “She’s Gotta Have It,” but there’s plenty of work to be done.
Feb. 4, 2004
World & Nation
Oklahoma basketball Coach Kelvin Sampson is a native son from another state.
March 13, 2002
A Lumbee Indian activist running for Superior Court judge in North Carolina’s racially troubled Robeson County was found shot to death at his home.
March 27, 1988
Half a world away from where the United States spends billions of dollars rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, people line up for their unemployment checks on a small-town street dotted with empty storefronts.
March 21, 2004
No woman has been executed in Florida since 1848, when a slave named Celia was hanged for plunging a knife into her master.
July 2, 1992
UCLA Sports
With UCLA slogging through a 3-3 February, and the prospect of a tougher time in March, Coach Steve Lavin on Tuesday could not help taking an eager look into a Bruin future he predicts can only get brighter.
Feb. 25, 1998
More than a century ago, George Vanderbilt created a monument to Gilded Age opulence amid the lush Blue Ridge Mountains.
Feb. 9, 2003
Sports
Some of the top high school basketball players in the country, including NBA-bound Korleone Young, will take part in the Eddie Jones All-Star Classic tonight at 7:30 at the Great Western Forum.
April 19, 1998
Some of the top high school basketball players in the country, including NBA-bound Korleone Young, will take part in the Eddie Jones All-Star Classic at 7:30 tonight at the Great Western Forum.
California
They go to class, stay in dorms, fool their new friends. But why? They can’t graduate because they’re not enrolled. They are impostors.
June 13, 2007