Denzel Washington
In Search of African America: One Collector's Experience. An exhibit at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum.
Entertainment was dominated by African Americans. During most of the 1980s, the Bill Cosby Show was the top program on evening television. During the day, viewers turned in to Oprah Winfrey for comfort and advice. Oscar winning actors Denzel Washington and Hallie Barry filled the silver screen. ... [Read More]
Welcome to South Georgia
The First District has also a been a background for top films including Academy Award Winning Best Picture Forrest Gump , filmed in and around Savannah. Other movies that filmed in various areas of the District include Glory (Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington), Camilla (Jessica Tandy, Bridget Fonda), and Gator (Burt Reynolds) which was filmed at Banks Lake in Lanier County as well as in Savannah. ... [Read More]
NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives Welcomes Four New Members, July 22, 2004 Press Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
James Kearns is an award-winning screenwriter whose work includes the screenplay for John Q., a feature film starring Denzel Washington. The film addresses issues of the medically underserved and other problems inherent in the health care delivery system. Mr. Kearns believes that tackling world health issues is critical to the nation's well being. He is a member of the nonprofit Entertainment Industries Council that, in partnership with the National Institute on Drug Abuse and others, created the PRISM awards to recognize the accurate depictions of drugs, alcohol, tobacco use, and addiction in various media. He is also a member of the Center for Community Change in Washington, D.C. that aims to combat at poverty in America. ... [Read More]
NEA Tour of Shakespeare
"There is in all recorded history nothing to equal or surpass Shakespeare," stated Jack Valenti. "Unless you know, read and hear his magic stories there is a vacancy in your life. This is why bringing Shakespeare to small and mid-size communities in all the fifty states is a great gift to America by the National Endowment for the Arts. Somewhere in this loving land there is another Gwyneth Paltrow or Denzel Washington who will set a movie on fire with Shakespeare's poetic prose." ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Albright Address at University California, Berkeley
I especially want to thank the graduating class for inviting me. I, myself, would probably have chosen Tom Cruise or Denzel Washington; but I am glad you didn't, because as a former professor, there is nothing I enjoy more than Graduation Day. ... [Read More]
Mississippi Freedom Summer Remembered
And at the city library, black and white schoolchildren readattentively beside a stand carrying books about African American rolemodels -- everyone from movie star Denzel Washington to U.S. Secretaryof State Colin Powell. Both the librarians on duty on this day areAfrican American. Everyone asked in Philadelphia knows about the threecivil rights workers and what happened in Neshoba County duringMississippi Freedom Summer. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Mississippi Freedom Summer Remembered
And at the city library, black and white schoolchildren read attentively beside a stand carrying books about African American role models -- everyone from movie star Denzel Washington to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Both the librarians on duty on this day are African American. Everyone asked in Philadelphia knows about the three civil rights workers and what happened in Neshoba County during Mississippi Freedom Summer. ... [Read More]
Emergency Response:FireLine Newspapers:March 2005
They have buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a hotel where soldier's families can live (for little or no charge), while their soldier is being treated. BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled to the brim most of the time. While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build. ... Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC (Brook Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas) the other day. BAMC is where soldiers that have been evac'd from Germany and elsewhere, to be hospitalized in the States, especially burn victims. ... [Read More]
William Greaves, Pioneering African American Filmmaker
In the final decades of the last century, African American superstars such as Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, and African American directors such as Spike Lee and John Singleton, became significant forces in Hollywood -- although they often said that they still faced greater obstacles than their white counterparts. ... [Read More]
NEA News Room: National Endowment for the Arts Launches Largest Tour of Shakespeare in American History
"There is in all recorded history nothing to equal or surpass Shakespeare," stated Jack Valenti. "Unless you know, read and hear his magic stories there is a vacancy in your life. This is why bringing Shakespeare to small and mid-size communities in all the fifty states is a great gift to America by the National Endowment for the Arts. Somewhere in this loving land there is another Gwyneth Paltrow or Denzel Washington who will set a movie on fire with Shakespeare's poetic prose." ... [Read More]
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