Vernon Jordan

Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle

2012-08-12 00:00:00

Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...

'The Good Wife' recap: 'I wish this had happened to somebody who cried a lot'

2010-10-27 16:34:44

Washington lawyer among finalists in MPAA's long and winding job search

2011-02-04 21:33:37

Who Obama invited to his first White House state dinner instead of you

2009-11-24 21:34:32

'The Good Wife': Everyone is that person

2010-05-12 16:34:35

Dining at Ground Zero

2002-03-17 00:00:00

More than six months after terrorists dealt New York a devastating blow, the city is getting on with things. Tourists are venturing back, and many are inevitably drawn downtown to the haunting ground zero site, as I was recently. Some come to grieve. Some...

Documentary spotlights civil rights pioneer

2013-02-13 00:00:00

When we hear the name Whitney Young, most Chicagoans probably think of the city's Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, rather than the man after whom it was named. But filmmaker Bonnie Boswell, Young's niece, hopes her new documentary about the civil...

Obamas walk to neighborhood wedding

2012-06-16 22:25:00

The first family walked over to a wedding in their hometown neighborhood tonight.President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and daughters Malia, 13, and Sasha, 11, are here for their first trip to the city as a foursome in two years. While the White...

Out on Home Video: 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' released

2012-04-09 12:10:00

EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE (2011) * *1/2 (B-) Directed by Stephen Daldry Starring Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow, John Goodman, Viola Davis Warner//Rated PG-13//Drama//129 minutes Available on: DVD, Blu-ray and digital...

Bulls' Derrick Rose to appear on 'The Good Wife'

2010-10-29 16:33:05

President, prof, police: 'This one's for you'

2009-07-25 16:24:10

by Mark Silva It was Sgt. James Crowley, the Cambridge police officer who led Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Jr., out of his own home in handcuffs, who suggested to President Barack Obama, who first criticized the arrest as stupid......

Obama's Vineyard: Retreat's rich history

2009-07-21 16:24:09

by Mark Silva This isn't Crawford, Texas, anymore. This is Martha's Vineyard, the remote island retreat of clapboard cottages, bluff-views of the ocean and tranquil harbors reachable by ferry, boat or plane off the shore of Cape Cod where the......

Vernon Jordan looks on prior to the start of the first of three presidential debates before the 2008 election in the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center at the University of Mississippi , in Oxford, Mississippi. Both candidates arrived in Oxford after taking part in negotiations the previous day in

2008-09-26 00:00:00