A Journalist Traces His Family Tree Back to Ancestor Who Served in Black Regiment in Civil War
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the middle of the night in the summer of 2021 when I finally found the missing piece of my family history. My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed on the African American Civil […]
Legendary Broadcast Journalist and Army Veteran Charles Osgood Dies at 91
Fellow broadcast news legend Charles Kuralt called Charles Osgood “one of the last great broadcast writers” because of his lyrical, poetic writing style. Osgood was the host of “CBS Sunday Morning” until 2016, having taken over the position from Kuralt in 1994. From 1971 to 2017, he produced a daily commentary called “The Osgood File” […]
