#Pulitzer Prize

Author: Cassandra Willyard / Source: Science News An Elegant Defense Matt Richtel William Morrow, $28.99 We like to think of the immune system as our own personal military, ready to attack foreign invaders. Slice your finger, and immune cells rush in to destroy rogue pathogens. But it’s

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Source: Good News Network 70 years ago today, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman opened on Broadway in the Morosco Theatre. The story, featuring an insecure and mentally unstable salesman named Willy Loman, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and also a Tony Award for Best Play. Widely considered

Source: Good News Network 150 years ago today, Scott Joplin, the African-American composer and pianist dubbed the “King of Ragtime,” was born in Texarkana, Arkansas. One of his first and most popular pieces, “Maple Leaf Rag”, became ragtime’s first influential hit, and is still instantly

Author: Laura Collins-Hughes / Source: New York Times Ntozake Shange, a spoken-word artist who morphed into a playwright with her canonical play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died on Saturday in Bowie, Md. She was 70. Her death was confirmed by her