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President Joseph R. Biden Jr. presents the Medal of Honor to former U.S. Army Capt. Larry L. Taylor during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 5, 2023. Taylor was awarded the Medal of Honor for his acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving then- […]
Sagen Maddalena earned bronze in the 50m rifle 3 positions event at the world shooting championships on Monday, ending the longest U.S. medal drought in any rifle event. China’s Zhang Qiongyue and Han Jiayu took gold and silver ahead of Maddalena, who became the first U.S. medalist in the event since 1990. “Gold is what […]
The 2023 Alexander Hamilton Medal will go to financial services executive George Van Amson CC’74, managing director of institutional equity sales and trading at Morgan Stanley. Van Amson is currently the head of The Americas Analyst and Associate Advising and Development Programs in Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division. The Hamilton Medal is the highest honor […]
Before a crowd of thousands in Cleveland on June 29, 1908, Marie C. Bolden, 14, defied the odds and won what is believed to be the first national spelling bee competition. She was the only Black participant. She was named the individual champion and helped lead her Cleveland classmates to the team championship, but her […]
Cincinnatians got the chance to learn pickleball from the professionals on Monday.Two U.S. Open winners were in Cincinnati as the weather warms up and more people are trying the sport.Aces Pickleball Kitchen hosted Rick Witsken and Beth Bellamy for a clinic, giving pickleball enthusiasts a chance to learn new techniques from the pros. Participants could […]
At the Association of Rice Alumni’s 2023 Laureates Awards ceremony May 4, the group will bestow its highest honor — the Gold Medal Award — to Kathleen Shive Matthews and Scott W. Wise ’71. The annual ceremony will also honor several prominent alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award and several members of the Rice community […]
APRIL 21, 1966 Portrait of Private First Class Milton Lee Olive III (1946 – 1965) of the 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, Phu Cuong, South Vietnam, October 22, 1965. He became the first African-American Medal of Honor winner of the Vietnam War for ‘conspicuous gallantry’ in sacrificing his life to save […]
BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — With a familiar berth in the women’s world hockey championship gold medal game on the line, leave it to the United States’ so-called old guard of Hilary Knight and Amanda Kessel to set the tone in a 9-1 rout of Switzerland on Saturday. And the Americans will be facing two-time defending […]
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s leftist government on Monday abolished a human rights medal that former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro had named after the daughter of the country’s last monarch, replacing it with a prize named after a Black writer and abolitionist. The medal will now be named after Luiz Gama, who was a leader of […]
Denise Saunders Thompson and the founding members of the International Association of Black Dancers WASHINGTON – Denise Saunders Thompson, associate dean of administration in the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, was presented with the 2021 National Medal of Arts by President Biden during an East Room ceremony at the White House held Tuesday. […]