Posted on August 6, 2015
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve added new content and made updates to already posted content found in your favorite Gale In Context products. See what’s there for you to access.
Biography In Context
New spotlight features have been added to the homepage that include:
- U.S. President Barack Obama, celebrating his birthday on August 4
- The late U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law 50 years ago
- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity labor union that sparked change in his country 35 years ago on August 31
- American actress Taraji P. Henson, star of television’s Empire
- Chris Froome, the British cyclist who recently won his second Tour de France title
- Kailash Satyarthi, Indian children’s rights activist who shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Malala Yousafzai
- Daniel James, Jr., also known as Chappie, who became the first African American four-star general in 1975
- Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell
- American filmmaker and producer Brett Ratner
- Sepp Blatter, the controversial Swiss president of FIFA (soccer’s international governing body)
Read moreContent updates for Gale’s In Context (week of 8/3/2015)
