She says she researches her family history because she wants to know where she came from, who her ancestors were.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

She says high school students respect her because they know she was able to attend college because of Hoop Dreams.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

She said she changed her name because she did not want her parents to know what she was doing.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Because his wife Millicent liked to invite her friends to big dinners and serve them rare and expensive food and wine.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

The band's lead singer Erika Lewis moved to New Orleans from New York state because of her love of music.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Lena Horne later said that she first became involved with Lennie Hayton because she thought he could be useful to her career.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

He wished he had not talked to Beatrice because now he felt under the power of her beauty.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

She was eighty-nine years old. In her later years, she was forced to live a simple life because of lack of money.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

A wife might urge her husband to "go easy on" their son, because the boy did not mean to wreck the car.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

He said the world knows of her because of a single act of bravery that struck a deadly blow to racial hatred.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The young girl Eleanora Fagan changed her name to Billie, because she liked a movie star, Billie Dove.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

She was in Paris. Some of her stories were never used because it took too long for them to reach the magazine.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

And because my brother had been kind to her, she felt that one good turn deserves another.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

They urged her to become a music teacher, because they said that was the only good job for a black woman at that time.

VOA: special.2010.05.09