when it comes to R&B soul music in the seventies the ladies would tell you who is that one singer who voice could get them in that mood you had Marvin Gaye you had Al Green yeah Barry White and you had Teddy P now see Teddy Pendergrass voice sold the song it was smooth…
In October 2010, a nurse at Beth Israel Medical Center walked past room 3K, as she had done nearly every day for two decades. Inside, a 104year-old woman sat surrounded by medical equipment she didn’t need, attended by staff who treated no illness in a space that cost roughly $400,000 per year to maintain. Huget…
of us never see, and that sometimes the greatest victories happen not on battlefields, but in the moments when families are reunited against impossible odds. Now, back to David’s remarkable journey home. Sergeant David Martinez had enlisted in the army at age 22, shortly after marrying his high school sweetheart Elena and becoming a father…
career, busier than she’d ever been, which made what she was about to do even more remarkable. The envelope was cream colored, slightly yellowed at the edges, addressed in careful handwriting with a return address that read Mrs. Barbara Douglas, why I’m missing Pennsylvania. Taylor didn’t recognize the name immediately, but something about it felt…
Imagine for a single second that you are voluntarily buying a one-way ticket straight to hell. Where the air is thick with the smell of sulfur, fear, and the looming apocalypse, and the only protection you have is your name. A name that once made the world stand still, but now evokes only pity. The…
Imagine a room where the concentration of testosterone, power, and money per square meter exceeds any permissible limit. A room where the air is so thick with cigarette smokes and unspoken tension that a single spark could trigger an explosion capable of obliterating America’s sporting elite. The calendar reads June 4th, 1967. We are in…
The red-on-one air light glowed like a warning as Howard Castle’s voice filled 30 million American living rooms. Perhaps, he said, pausing for effect. Perhaps Muhammad Ali’s time has finally passed. In studio 6B at ABC’s New York headquarters, Ali sat frozen in the green room, headphones pressed against his ears, watching his closest friend…
A racist cop slapped Muhammad Ali. Had no idea who he was. Seconds later, everything changed. Muhammad Ali had stood up to the United States government, refused an army draft, and faced down the most dangerous fighters alive. But on a Tuesday afternoon in Louisville in 1966, a police officer who didn’t recognize him put…
February 12th, 1991, Catskill, New York. In Mike Tyson’s training camp, a hard-working young man had already been socially buried as too small for the girl he loved. And before the week was over, Mike was going to walk into a family restaurant and make her father face what real worth looked like. Dany worked…
March 1995, Indiana Youth Center. The world had already buried Mike Tyson in prison, called him finished, called him a monster, called him everything except a man. And then Muhammad Ali walked in. By then, Mike had been stripped down to almost nothing. No belts, no ring walks, no cameras waiting outside, no crowd roaring…
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