VALERIE JARRETT

by Kenya King

ATLANTA--To this day, the remembrance of an oral argument in law school gives her a ghastly uneasiness. But now she finds a way to joke about her abysmal experience and how she ultimately overcame her fear of public speaking. After all, it is the reason she didn't become a litigator and instead began working in public service.

Ophelia DeVore Mitchell, a model, businesswoman and pioneer in the "Black is beautiful" movement, has placed her papers at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL).

GOOD GOLLY—Little Richard acknowledges the crowd while being wheeled onstage during Mercer University’s commencement ceremony.

by Wayne Crenshaw

MACON, Ga.--Not far from where he grew up decades ago in poverty and segregation, Mercer University bestowed music legend Little Richard with an honorary doctorate of humanities.

Pearl Gosnell, wife of Kermit Gosnell, walks to the center for criminal justice, May 29, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The wife of a Philadelphia abortion doctor, a cosmetologist who admitted helping him perform very late-term abortions at his corrupt, grimy clinic, said Wednesday that she was sorry for trusting her husband and was sentenced seven to 23 months in prison.