A half-century ago, thousands of women’s liberation movement supporters packed into San Francisco’s Union Square. They joined about 100,000 more in cities across the country on Aug. 26, 1970, celebrating the 50th anniversary of women’s suffrage in a protest called the Women’s Strike for Equality. It was in that public space, during the first major demonstration of the modern women’s movement, that the world first heard activist Judy Brady Syfers publicly long for a wife. Read More...
Zach Gilford was born Zachary Michael Gilford on January 14, 1982, in Evanston, Illinois, USA. His mother is Anne Gilford, and his father is Steve Gilford.
Zach Gilford graduated from Evanston Township High School. After graduating in 2000, he attended Northwestern University and majored in theatre. His ancestors are Swedish and Russian-Jewish.
Gilford began his professional acting career as a trip leader with Adventures Cross-Country, followed by a position on the staff of YMCA Camp Echo. Read More...
She was the belle of Havana high society — the vivacious young wife of a renowned surgeon, a woman with expensive tastes, patrician good looks and a mile-wide rebellious streak.
He was a radical leftist with a wife, a young son, several unpaid electricity bills and an ambitious plan to overthrow Cuba’s conservative dictator.
The affair between Fidel Castro and Natalia Revuelta Clews, who died Friday at age 89, began like a Shakespearean tragedy: Two young lovers from opposing worlds drawn together amid roiling political turmoil. Read More...