Hillary Clinton celebrated her historic victory as the first female presidential nominee for a major political party by sharing a special message for girls all over America: Yes, you can. Before speaking at a rally in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday night, Clinton shared a photo that showed her dancing with a young girl. "To every little girl who dreams big: Yes, you can be anything you want - even president. Tonight is for you," Clinton captioned the photo. It was capped off with her signature "H," indicating Clinton wrote the tweet herself. The tweet has garnered more than 46,000 likes...
- 6/8/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
Hillary Clinton celebrated her historic victory as the first female presidential nominee for a major political party by sharing a special message for girls all over America: Yes, you can. Before speaking at a rally in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday night, Clinton shared a photo that showed her dancing with a young girl. "To every little girl who dreams big: Yes, you can be anything you want - even president. Tonight is for you," Clinton captioned the photo. It was capped off with her signature "H," indicating Clinton wrote the tweet herself. The tweet has garnered more than 46,000 likes...
- 6/8/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
African-American film 'Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day.' With Williams and Odessa Warren Grey.* Rare, early 20th-century African-American film among San Francisco Silent Film Festival highlights Directed by Edwin Middleton and T. Hayes Hunter, the Biograph Company's Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913) was the film I most looked forward to at the 2015 edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. One hundred years old, unfinished, and destined to be scrapped and tossed into the dust bin, it rose from the ashes. Starring entertainer Bert Williams – whose film appearances have virtually disappeared, but whose legacy lives on – Lime Kiln Club Field Day has become a rare example of African-American life in the first years of the 20th century. In the introduction to the film, the audience was treated to a treasure trove of Black memorabilia: sheet music, stills, promotional material, and newspaper clippings that survive. Details of the...
- 6/16/2015
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
Hillary Clinton's already accomplished a lot in her lifetime, but she's really looking forward to her most important role yet: Grandmother! In the former Secretary of State's book Hard Choices (as excerpted by Vogue), Hillary gushes about how proud she is of daughter (and now mom-to-be) Chelsea Clinton. The 66-year-old politician is also the first to give credit to her own mother Dorothy Howell Rodham, who passed away in 2011, for instilling a sense of optimism and love in herself and Chelsea through the years. Hilary's mother's childhood "was marked by trauma and abandonment," she writes. Despite being spurned by her own parents, though, Dorothy remained a positive and loving woman,...
- 5/12/2014
- E! Online
It's an extra special Mother's Day for Hillary Clinton, whose daughter Chelsea will become a mom in a matter of months. In an exclusive excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Hard Choices, published on Vogue.com, Clinton reminisces about giving birth to her baby girl - and what her mother taught her. "From the moment I first held Chelsea in my arms in the hospital in Little Rock, I knew my mission in life was to give her every opportunity to thrive. As she's grown up and stepped out into the world in her own right, my responsibilities have changed," she writes.
- 5/11/2014
- by Michele Corriston
- PEOPLE.com
It's an extra special Mother's Day for Hillary Clinton, whose daughter Chelsea will become a mom in a matter of months. In an exclusive excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Hard Choices, published on Vogue.com, Clinton reminisces about giving birth to her baby girl - and what her mother taught her. "From the moment I first held Chelsea in my arms in the hospital in Little Rock, I knew my mission in life was to give her every opportunity to thrive. As she's grown up and stepped out into the world in her own right, my responsibilities have changed," she writes.
- 5/11/2014
- by Michele Corriston
- PEOPLE.com
Washington - The mother of Us Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton died Tuesday at age 92, the Clinton family said in a statement. Dorothy Howell Rodham was remembered as 'a warm, generous and strong woman; an intellectual; a woman who told a great joke and always got the joke; an extraordinary friend' in the statement posted on former president Bill Clinton's foundation website. Clinton has cancelled plans to attend Turkey's regional conference this week on the way forward in Afghanistan. Dorothy Rodham died in Washington, surrounded by family, the statement said. 'Her story was a quintessentially American one, largely because she wrote it herself. She overcame abandonment and hardship as a young girl to become the remarkable woman...
- 11/1/2011
- Monsters and Critics
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