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In the summer of 1974, a young woman sat in a North Carolina jail cell with no lawyer at her side, no allies in the building,...
In 1970, one of the biggest stars at Motown wanted to release a song that sounded nothing like the music that had made him famous. It...
On January 26, 1944, in a Birmingham, Alabama, neighborhood where houses had been bombed often enough that residents called it Dynamite Hill, a schoolteacher’s daughter was...
There’s a grocery store in Nashville where no one pays at checkout. And no one hands you a pre-packed box of someone else’s leftovers, either. You...
A university once decided the safest place for one of its brightest students was out of sight. Her name was Florence Bascom, and in 1893, she...
In 1902, a young American heiress in Paris used her father’s fortune to build the exact life he had spent years trying to stop her from...
A physics department head once tried to talk her out of pursuing astronomy altogether. Nancy Grace Roman ignored him, helped build NASA’s astronomy program from the...
In 1966, a beautiful new love song was being created in California. It sounded warm. It sounded innocent. It sounded like something that should have been...
Some songs are carefully planned. Others seem to arrive from somewhere completely unexpected. And then there are songs that begin with a dream. In 1969, during...
For decades, people have slow-danced to this song. They’ve played it at weddings. They’ve dedicated it to someone they love. And they’ve heard its gentle melody...