For five years in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ellis Haizlip presided over one of the most culturally significant television shows in U.S. history. SOUL!, on PBS, probed and celebrated the African American experience, from interviews with Harry Belafonte, Muhammad Ali, and James Baldwin to performances by Patti LaBelle, Al Green, and Stevie Wonder.  

They came from different neighborhoods and ran with rival gangs on Chicago’s West Side. Improbably, the group of young men found promise and common purpose in a boat, in a sport – rowing – that few African Americans saw as being for them. It changed the direction of their lives. 

There’s a story – important and real-life – behind 9 to 5, both the iconic workplace-revenge movie and the catchy Dolly Parton song. 

Bill Tammeus and his family have borne a deep personal loss since the terrorists’ attacks of September 11, 2001. His nephew, a bond analyst for Hancock Financial Services, was aboard the first plane to slam into the World Trade Center in New York City.