U.S. Open’s new tournament director is Eric Butorac, an architect of $1M mixed doubles event

Eric Butorac, one of the main brains behind the U.S. Open’s successful and controversial star-studded mixed doubles ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1969, a Famed Bluegrass Picker Performed in the Nation’s Capital for 500,000 Demonstrators in Protest of the Vietnam War

On November 15, 1969, an iconic bluegrass picker broke off from the Nashville establishment and performed at a Vietnam War protest.
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As the National Guard enters Memphis, memories of MLK and 1968 unrest resurface

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — As National Guard troops arrive in Memphis, the memory of thousands of them with bayonetted rifles and tanks in 1968 is still fresh for Joe Calhoun. Back then, he marched in the ...
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Gaza crisis features in march remembering 1968 Mexican massacre

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The annual march to commemorate the 1968 massacre of protesting students in Mexico’s capital was eclipsed Thursday by demands to end a humanitarian crisis halfway around the world ...