Support Provided By
1:45
In 1919 at the age of 24, Dorothea Lange opened her own portrait studio in San Francisco.
1:07
Le Clercq was one of Balanchine's muses and her body and style became an ideal in ballet.
1:42
An iron lung allowed Tanaquil Le Clercq to breathe after she contracted polio in 1956.
3:11
Plimpton's assistant was tasked with keeping his Sports Illustrated hoax going.
0:56
Watch a clip of Le Clercq in Western Symphony, one of the last ballets she performed in.
1:55
In this excerpt, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalls his father's admiration for Plimpton.
2:17
Plimpton published McInerney's first story ever in The Paris Review in 1982.
2:00
The fate of the Amazon rainforest turned on an unlikely environmental hero: Chico Mendes.
1:56
Environmental justice is a movement to fight environmental racism.
1:15
Alice Walker reads from what she calls "the God section" of her novel "The Color Purple."
0:47
Howard Zinn compares his former student, Alice Walker, to Zora Neale Hurston.
