Feb 9th, 2010 · Blending funk, hip-hop, and jazz sounds, the New Orleans-based band Galactic combines musical genres to create a new sound that they make their own. Critic Ken Tucker says heir newest album Ya-Ka-May is a true rhythmic pleasure.
Feb 4th, 2010 · The heir to the Johnson & Johnson health care products fortune, died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening condition caused by lack of insulin and sky-high blood sugar. Johnson had been an insulin-dependent diabetic since childhood.
Oct 13th, 2009 · The children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. reached a settlement late Monday that will keep the family from a public jury trial. Dexter King's brother and sister sued him in July 2008, accusing him of acting improperly as head of their father's estate, which the three of them control as a private corporation.
Aug 20th, 2009 · Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar features a young man masquerading as the heir to a fortune.
Mar 29th, 2009 · British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has endorsed the idea of ending centuries of discrimination in royal succession. Proposed legislation would end the custom of giving male heirs precedence in the line of royal succession. The bill also would allow monarchs to marry Roman Catholics. The changes would involve reforming 300-year-old laws. Reporter Vicki Barker has the story from London.
Dec 5th, 2008 · A piece of the Parthenon has come home. During theWorld War Two occupation of Greece, an Austrian soldier took a marble fragment from a frieze in the ancient temple above Athens. His granddaughter, who inherited the stolen treasure, returned it this week. Greece is fighting to get back more of the Parthenon — the Elgin Marbles — from the British Museum. Still, it welcomed this small piece as a symbolic return.
Oct 28th, 2008 · Martin Ramirez was a Mexican immigrant who spent more than 30 years in California psychiatric hospitals. At the time, much of his work was thrown away, but today, he is hailed as one of the giants of 20th century art.
Aug 19th, 2008 · Jaime Johnson, one of the heirs of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune and director of the 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich talks about the blessing and burden of white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant culture.