Charlie Rose’s eponymous show, “Charlie Rose,” was a nightly one-hour program that premiered in 1991 and ran until 2017, earning many of the industry’s top honors along the way. Part of the secret sauce for the show was the minimal set design, which consisted of a round oak table and signature black backdrop…
As founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post, Jonah Peretti is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in viral marketing. In 2006, Peretti launched BuzzFeed as an internet experiment that leveraged emerging technologies to track online social behavior…
Famed actor John Astin is best known for his work as Gomez Addams, the lovable, slightly kooky patriarch of the original Addams Family television series, which aired from 1964-1966. The son of a physicist, Astin was born in 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland…
From 1988 to 1992, Fred Savage was one of the most well-known child actors in America. Starring as the central figure, Kevin Arnold, on the critically acclaimed TV show “The Wonder Years,” Savage was only 12 when he became the youngest person to be nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actor…
Frank Capra was one of the most prominent directors in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, when he won three Academy Awards for Best Director. Thematically, Capra was famous for churning out patriotic films that celebrated the virtues of an everyman who selflessly combatted insurmountable odds for the good of the community…
Far from Hollywood’s bright lights, Elizabeth Banks grew up in a working-class town with no idea of how exciting her life would turn out when she became one of her generation’s highest-paid actresses. In fact, it took a freak injury during a high school softball game to steer Banks away from competitive athletics and onto a theatre stage, where she became especially known for her comedic performances as an actress…
Born in 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a noted scholar, editor, and activist who fought discrimination and racism throughout his life. After graduating valedictorian from his Massachusetts high school in 1884, Du Bois attended Fisk University in Tennessee, where he was first exposed to the harsh realities of Jim Crow segregation…
In 1958, after working in business and government, Nelson Rockefeller was elected governor of New York, where he served four terms. Afterwards, in 1974, he was appointed Vice President of the U.S. by President Gerald Ford…
One of the most influential economists in the world, N. Gregory Mankiw has spent his entire career balancing his time between academia and politics. Currently, he is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where his work on New Keynesian economics has placed him at the forefront of his field…
The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company, Indra Nooyi’s career is legendary. Born in India, Nooyi earned her business degree in the U.S. and would later go on to head one of America’s most iconic corporations, PepsiCo, as its Chairman and CEO…
