Dec 24th, 2008 · Fritz Scholder was only part Native American so when he created his "Indian" series in the 1960s, he made a lot of people mad. Now, Scholder is the subject of three exhibitions across the country — including "Fritz Scholder: Indian / Not Indian," at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
Dec 22nd, 2008 · Michael Turner, one of about 90 boys abused by Father Louis Miller, a priest in the Archdiocese of Louisville in the 1960s, is hoping to bring his case to trial — against The Vatican. If successful, it could be the first case against the Holy See, which normally enjoys sovereign immunity.
Dec 16th, 2008 · Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and essayist William Stanley Merwin was known in the 1960s as an anti-war poet. Now an environmental activist, Merwin has published a new book of poems, The Shadow of Sirius, which addresses themes of memory and mortality.
Dec 12th, 2008 · Two new movies — Doubt and The Reader — deal with sex with minors. Doubt takes place during a time of change for the Roman Catholic church in the 1960s. The Reader is about two generations of Germans, those who lived through World War II and those who learned about it as history.
Nov 27th, 2008 · Quincy Jones went from performing and arranging to producing. As a record executive, he churned out chart toppers. Always restless, he moved to producing films and TV shows in the 1960s and '70s. Through the '80s and '90s there were more hits: The Color Purple, Michael Jackson's blockbusters and humanitarian work in Africa. At 75, he's still keeping up a blistering pace.
Nov 19th, 2008 · Arts critic Clive Barnes died Wednesday. During the 1960s and 1970s, the British-born Barnes exercised significant influence over New York theater and dance as a critic for The New York Times. He became a New York Post critic in 1978.
Nov 18th, 2008 · During the presidential election campaign, the Republican ticket tried to make an issue out of Barack Obama's association with William Ayers. He's the 1960s-era radical that later served on a charitable board with Obama. Ayers wasn't heard from much during the campaign. Now the nationally known scholar on urban education is on a book tour.
Nov 13th, 2008 · The drop continues a decades-long decline that, despite having slowed in recent years, has brought the smoking rate below 20 percent for the first time since the government started keeping track in the 1960s.