The wake and funeral for civil rights activist and NAACP New York State Conference president ... and was elected president of the national NAACP in 1989. She held the position for two years.

NEW YORK (AP) — Betsy Arakawa, a concert pianist and co-founder of a home furnishing business, was found dead Wednesday in ...

In 1977 she was elected to lead the NAACP's New York conference, a position she held until her death Saturday morning. In 1989 she was elected ... of essential NYC stories, delivered to your ...

Joseph Wambaugh, the master storyteller of police dramas, whose books, films and television tales powerfully caught the hard psychic realities of lonely street cops and flawed detectives trapped in a ...

In Roxana Robinson’s biography “Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life” (1989), relatives were quoted ... The Seattle Times does not append ...

A federally funded database helps track long-term, missing-person cases. Yet an NPR investigation finds that even in states ...

He won the National Book Award for his novel, which one reviewer called “possibly the best American novel about going fishing ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As a continuation of its New York Stories, DKNY shifts focus from literature ... and feature the “DKNY est. 1989” collection which revisits iconic pieces ...

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I wanted to take a look at a film that is perfect for a movie date night during Valentine’s Day weekend: a beloved romantic comedy from 1989 that is ...

General George Sharpe: Ulster County’s War Hero w/ Paul O’Neill at D&H Canal Historical Society in High Falls, 7pm. Queer Tabletop Role-Playing Games at Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center in ...

the infectious “We Got Our Own Thang” took the New York rap group led by Jamaican-born Heavy D into the US R&B Top 10. The centerpiece of Big Thyme, the group’s chart-topping 1989 album ...

Gregorij von Leitis is known for New York Stories (1989) and Neonstadt (1982).