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Elijah Cummings, longtime congressman from Baltimore who received an honorary degree in 2015 and died in 2019, held the national stage while maintaining steadfast support for his city
As Kentucky State University initiates its search for a new president, it is good for those who love her to remember its best president, Rufus Ballard Atwood.
People there were dissidents for democracy, the fact that you had the berlin wall come down in '89 and what that meant, the wall being the symbol of the cold war, ronald reagan had said gorbachev, tear it down. now it was chiseled away, young people ripping away at it. the breakup of the soviet union and what that meant. all the countries that had been trying to join nato like poland and romania and the czech respect and slovakia. there was this moment in the bush presidency that it seemed like the american democratic ideal was overtaking the globe in a revolutionary fashion. and the capstone ...
Empathy. it let's you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. it helps us to identify with the people who are shearing this journey with us. >> i mean, just such rich, beautiful words from roger ebert. is america and the world, are we losing that type of criticism and that type of vision when so many folks now just go on to rotten tomatoes to see whether or not they should see a movie? >> that's a good question. i think there are a lot of great people out there still writing criticism. and roger would tell you that. i think what roger did, though, was...