Why 'Troop Beverly Hills' Still Matters 35 Years Later
'Troop Beverly Hills' is a product of its time, but there are reasons why this film meant so much to tweens like me in the early 1990s.
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'Troop Beverly Hills' is a product of its time, but there are reasons why this film meant so much to tweens like me in the early 1990s.
The automobile has been an iconic symbol of freedom, accomplishment, wealth, comfort, and status in America since the late 19th century. Though slow-moving like most new technologies, car ownership was commonplace by the first quarter of the 20th century, but this guarantee of mobility, like the promise of freedom,
The first national celebration that focused on the history of Black Americans was Negro History Week in 1925, a bookend timeframe in February between the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It was so well-embraced that according to BlackHistoryMonth.gov, President Ford expanded it to a month in 1976,
A Black woman’s concerns for her son are distilled into the story of this opera coming to Fort Worth.
The question 'do you know why I pulled you over?' will be a thing of the past in 2024.