Tag: Politics and History

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Boston Busing Crisis
Kevin White on Almost Losing to Anti-Busing Candidate

  By Virginia Choi • September 9, 2014 Uncategorized
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Former mayor of Boston, Kevin White, talks about almost losing in the 1967 general election to Louise Day Hicks, a Boston School Committee member who was anti-desegregation and “anti-black.” The 1965 Racial Imbalance Act, which desegregated the public schools in Boston via court-ordered busing of children into different neighborhood schools, … Continue reading

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Mao Zedong
Voices of Victims and Mao’s Red Guards

  By Sarah Dejak • September 8, 2014 Uncategorized
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Between the years of 1966 and 1976, Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong helped to lead what is now known as the Cultural Revolution. This was a time when his Communist Party was worried that capitalistic beliefs were going to take over Chinese society. Because of this threat, Mao Zedong and his … Continue reading

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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Witnessing the Attack on Pearl Harbor & Flames in the Water

  By Virginia Choi • September 4, 2014 Uncategorized
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Frank Chebetar was a 20-year old cook on a ship at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II on the morning of December 7, 1941. On the 70th anniversary of the attack, Chebetar describes what he saw on that day as the memories move him … Continue reading

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Good Friday Agreement
What Post-Conflict Ireland is Like for Young People

  By Virginia Choi • September 4, 2014 Uncategorized
What Post-Conflict Ireland is Like for Young People

Young people of Northern Ireland talk on what it is like for them to grow up in their post-conflict communities after the Good Friday Agreement was enforced on December 2, 1999. The agreement established Northern Ireland’s current devolved government within the United Kingdom (UK) following the ethno-nationalist conflict in the … Continue reading

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1972 Summer Olympics
Jim McKay on Covering News of the Munich Massacre

  By Virginia Choi • September 2, 2014 Uncategorized
Jim McKay on Covering News of the Munich Massacre

Sportscaster Jim McKay recalls being off-duty from covering the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when he was quickly ushered back on air to report live on the Munich massacre. He shares stories on what reporting on the crisis was like for him and his crew. To this day, … Continue reading

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Rwandan Genocide
Surviving Rwandan Genocide & Forgiving Its Perpetrators

  By Virginia Choi • September 2, 2014 Uncategorized
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Immaculée Ilibagiza recalls the start of the Rwandan Genocide on April 7, 1994 by the Hutu majority in Rwanda and going into hiding in a small bathroom because she was a Tutsi. She describes praying to not be caught when Hutus were looking for more victims and not being found: … Continue reading

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Crime in North Korea
Escaping North Korea With the Help of a Stranger

  By Virginia Choi • September 1, 2014 Uncategorized
Escaping North Korea With the Help of a Stranger

North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee describes how she escaped from North Korea in 1997 after witnessing the atrocities committed in her country. She lived as an illegal immigrant in China then sought asylum in South Korea. Lee then speaks of her tumultuous journey trying to get her family out of … Continue reading

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Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh’s Mastery of Public Relations

  By Virginia Choi • September 1, 2014 Uncategorized
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Professor Bernard B. Fall, who wrote the first Western biography on the notorious Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, discusses Ho’s effective application of public relations strategies: “He is extremely response-conscious…The uncle idea is his idea.” Ho Chi Minh is referred to by the Vietnamese people as “Uncle Ho” … Continue reading

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RMS Titanic
Robert Ballard on His Roundabout Titanic Discovery

  By Virginia Choi • September 1, 2014 Uncategorized
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Dr. Robert Ballard recalls his excitement on the day he found the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in 1985 during a joint French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (IFREMER) and his crew from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Ballard on … Continue reading

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Hollywood Blacklist
[Blog] The Hollywood Blacklist

  By Virginia Choi • August 28, 2014 Uncategorized
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Author: Megan O’Toole In the golden age of Hollywood, many film industry employees fueled a stable “studio system” by signing contracts with a select number of major studios. Between the years 1927 to 1963, five large studios including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures controlled the film industry–creating thousands of efficiently-made movies. … Continue reading