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Porgy and Bess classic celebrates the legacy of Anne Brown and Black History Month. Watch the premiere of Women of Color on Broadway, Inc.'s “Summertime” music video in honor of Black History Month, sponsored by MAC Cosmetics, above. Todd Duncan and Anne Brown in Porgy and Bess “Summertime,” with its unforgettable soaring melody, immediately launches audiences into the world of George and Ira Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. The opera-musical, which premiered on October 10, 1935 at Alvin Theatre, follows the lives of the titular characters and other reside...

the state making a decision to open the spillway and release water into some communities, burying homes in those communities to protect communities like baton rouge, new orleans, one of the extraordinary measures this state is taking. the stakes are enormous. governor jindal saying $300 million alone in crop damage, tens of millions in other property damage. there are a dozen oil refineries in flood zone. there are chemical factories, homes and businesses as well. listen to governor jindal here explaining the tough decision to open the spillway he says will protect larger communities...

Look at the water right up to the front doors. this is the flooding. let's show you what they're doing to prevent it from getting any worse down here. it is really quite a remarkable engineering feat that they've had to put together in a real hurry. this water came up -- they had warning, but the water came up in the last ten days. look at the construction they've had to build here. the question is will it be enough to hold? basically an old fashioned dike system put together with railroad ties, tar in between. you got these huge steel girders here that are literally backing it up and chains a...