The 1989 miniseries "Lonesome Dove" introduced Duvall (left, with Rick Schroder) to new fans.

At the 1980 Winter Olympics, the U.S. men’s hockey team beat the Soviets. The Americans called it The Miracle on Ice, and it was. It was as improbable as frozen tap water being turned into merlot.

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force who formed a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people.

In a decades-long effort, Jesse Jackson stood alongside MLK, pushed for voting rights, shamed corporations and negotiated ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr ...