Vice Presidents

  • Charles Curtis, America’s first mixed-race Veep

    Kamala Harris is breaking barriers with her election to the Vice Presidency, however, she was not the first person of color to achieve that office. Obscured along the decades, Charles Curtis, a United States Senator who was a one-eighth Native American member of the Kaw Nation of Kansas, was elected to serve as Vice President… Continue reading

  • All in the Game

                           “Many a tear has to fall,                                   but it’s all,                                               in the game.” Aficionados of oldies music might immediately hear a melody when they see those words. The classic pop song, “It’s All in the Game,” topped the charts in 1958, as sung by Tommy Edwards. What most people don’t realize is that… Continue reading