Vernon Jordan

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The latest idea for a real-life cameo on the CBS drama "The Good Wife" — former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — has been nixed before it even got anywhere. The Golden Globe-nominated drama has had public...

When we hear the name Whitney Young, most Chicagoans probably think of the city's Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, rather than the man after whom it was named. But filmmaker Bonnie Boswell, Young's niece, hopes her new documentary about the civil...

Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...

Aug. 23, 1987 Mr. and Mrs. David Lewis Willoughby, Winchester, announce the engagement of their daughter Laura Louise, to Nelson Wayne Johns, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Johns, also of Winchester. Mr. Johns is a 1985 graduate of George Rogers Clark...

The first family walked over to a wedding in their hometown neighborhood tonight.President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and daughters Malia, 13, and Sasha, 11, are here for their first trip to the city as a foursome in two years. While the White...

EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE (2011) * *1/2 (B-) Directed by Stephen Daldry Starring Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow, John Goodman, Viola Davis Warner//Rated PG-13//Drama//129 minutes Available on: DVD, Blu-ray and digital...

There's no doubt that the writers of "The Good Wife" have their work cut out for them, creating 22 compelling episodes a year. But given that American political scandals erupt even more often than that -- or so it seems......

Derrick Rose during the first quarter of a preseason game against the Toronto Raptors on October 12, 2010 at the United Center. (Jerry Lai/US PRESSWIRE ORG) The Bulls' Derrick Rose will make a special appearance on a future episode of the CBS political...

For those still keeping track of the dizzying search to find a new chief executive for the Motion Picture Assn. of America, here's another name to add to the short list: Antoinette Cook Bush. The veteran Washington, D.C., communications attorney,......

by Mark Silva It was Sgt. James Crowley, the Cambridge police officer who led Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Jr., out of his own home in handcuffs, who suggested to President Barack Obama, who first criticized the arrest as stupid......

by Mark Silva This isn't Crawford, Texas, anymore. This is Martha's Vineyard, the remote island retreat of clapboard cottages, bluff-views of the ocean and tranquil harbors reachable by ferry, boat or plane off the shore of Cape Cod where the......

And the official toasts by India's prime minister Manmohan Singh and Obama....