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To be a free man or you want to be a slave. as rolling stone puts it, he used a derogatory term to describe his friend in 1968 and went on a racist rant saying stop britain from becoming a black colony. keep britain white. that was particularly shocking at the time because claptons music was heavily influenced, one might say, appropriated, from black musicians. one of his biggest hits was a cover of i shot the sheriff. as someone wrote -- clapton has apologized for his racist past, blaming it on...

What do we know? >> it is one of the most haunting unsolved cold cases. infamous zodiac killer. responsible for at least seven murders between 1968 and 69. zodiac claimed 37 killings. zodiac taunted authorities for years by sending letters with the zodiac symbol. a dozen possible suspect. the nonprofit group case breakers.org said it was a man named gary pran sis post from northern california. he died in 2018 at 80 years old. case breakers said he is confident they have nailed the zodiac. >> my ...

National hispanic heritage month runs from september 15th to october 15th in the united states each year. the commemoration actually began as hispanic heritage week, when it was signed into law by president lyndon b. johnson in 1968. it was later expanded to a full month in 1988, although you can see it split between two months. to mark the occasion this year, i traveled to san antonio to speak directly with six members of the latin-x community with concerns directly related to them. we discusse...

The Detroit Tigers rarely make it to the World Series. It's even more rare they win the World Series Championship. They did win in 1935, 1945, 1968 & 1984.

You can do anything you want. classical ballet is impossibly difficult and it requires focus, it requires self—discipline and it requires perseverance. in two months, i had 400 kids. in four months, i had 800 kids. so that shows there is a want, a need and a desire for this. i got to new york in the fall of 1968 and somebody told me that arthur mitchell was teaching class up in harlem on saturdays and i could go up and take class and get a little ballet back in my life. and ijoined dance theat...

And she said, "you know, you are going to have a career. "you are a really wonderful dancer but you will never be "a ballerina because of the colour of your skin." it was following the assassination of martin luther king in 1968 that arthur mitchell decided to set up a dance company for black people in harlem. arthur mitchell was a principal dancer with new york city ballet and he was the first african—american to achieve that level in a major american ballet company. he looked around at this ...

Obviously he didnt. but when alzheimers claimed him, the piracy of alzheimers was actually a little less scary for me. it was still scary but less so because i could wrap my head around that. i could wrap my head around the piracy of alzheimers. i couldnt wrap my head around someone taking a gun and going and taking another life. >> mm-hmm. >> and i still cant. >> its the immediacy of it, and i certainly understand that. >> yeah. >> listen, i want to read part of your new op-ed out today. it sai...

Using a european art form — classical ballet. but i think that is the strongest technical foundation. once you have that technique, you can do anything you want. classical ballet is impossibly difficult and it requires focus, it requires self—discipline and it requires perseverance. in two months, i had 400 kids. in four months, i had 800 kids. so that shows there is a want, a need and a desire for this. i got to new york in the fall of 1968 and somebody told me that arthur mitchell was teac...

You are going to have a career. "you are a really wonderful dancer but you will never be "a ballerina because of the colour of your skin." it was following the assassination of martin luther king in 1968 that arthur mitchell decided to set up a dance company for black people in harlem. arthur mitchell was a principal dancer with new york city ballet and he was the first african—american to achieve that level in a major american ballet company. he looked around at this neighbourhood and he said...

In two months i had 400 kids, in four months i had 800 kids, so that shows there is a want, a need and a desire for this. i got to new york in the fall of 1968 and somebody told me that arthur mitchell was teaching a class up in harlem on saturdays and i could go up and take a class and get a little ballet back in my life. and ijoined dance theatre of harlem in the spring of 1969. and right from the start it was magic. see, it is too soft. he was maniacal. if we were going to do ballet we were g...