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Celebrate the life of Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston remembered in song and speeches (CBS/AP) Updated 3:30 p.m. ET CBS News The Funeral of Whitney Elizabeth Houston NEWARK, N.J. – Actor Kevin Costner joined friends and family gathered Saturday to pay their respects to Whitney Houston in her hometown of Newark, N.J. and brought smiles to the faces of mourners as he remembered his co-star in “The Bodyguard.” Costner remembered a movie star who was uncertain of her own fame, who “still wondered, ‘am I good enough? Am I pretty enough? Will they like me?’ ” “It was the burden that made her great and the part that caused her to stumble in the end,” Costner said.…
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Black History Month
A Monument to Exodusters July 1, 2011, 22:18BY ROBIN VAN AUKEN JUNE 27 Another Delay for Museum of African Art June 16, 2011, 19:12http://blogs.wsj.com/met Artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. March 9, 2011, 18:58Digitized Collections Document Etta James Dies at 73 January 20, 2012, 23:00January 20, 2012 http://www.n Gil Scott-Heron, Poet, Dies at 62 May 29, 2011, 13:04MAY 27, 2011 Journey and Legacy of Obama’s Mother May 5, 2011, 14:17May 2, 2011 By Catherine Lutz Martin Luther King Jr. January 16, 2012, 20:38http://www.history.com/top May 17, 1954: Brown v. Board of Ed is decided May 16, 2011, 18:31In a major civil right Michael Jackson Biography in full Michael Joseph Jackson ( 1958…
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John Glenn on the 50th Anniversary of His Historic Flight
Earthlings count down to 50th anniversary of the first American flight to orbit the Earth © 2012 NOLA.com. All rights reserved. Published: Saturday, February 18, 2012, 10:00 AM By The Associated Press The Associated Press John Glenn fever has taken hold in the U.S. once again. Three days before the 50th anniversary of his historic flight, the first American to orbit the Earth addressed employees at Kennedy Space Center. The NASA auditorium was packed Friday with hundreds of workers hoping to see the space legend. NASA, via The Associated Press Astronaut John Glenn was photographed Feb. 20, 1962, during his space flight in the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft, weightless and…