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JANET LANGHART COHEN
Nationality: USA
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Janet Langhart Cohen is an emmy-nominated journalist, author and playwright Janet who began her television career on CBS in Chicago. During her 25-year career, Mrs. Cohen has appeared on aBC, CBS, NBC and BeT; hosted aBCs Good Day in Boston; covered special assignments for entertainment Tonight; and produced several programs, including On Capitol Hill with Janet Langhart. as an overseas correspondent, she covered news in europe, Africa and the Middle east. Mrs. Cohen is the wife of former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen. She was known as First Lady of the Pentagon, due to her active and visible public role while her husband was in office. She wrote her first book, a memoir entitled, From Rage to Reason: My Life in Two Americas in 2004. In 2007, she and her husband co-wrote Love in Black and White, a memoir about race, religion and the bonds Langhart and Cohen share over similar life circumstances and backgrounds. Throughout her career, Mrs. Cohen interviewed many major newsmakers and leaders of the 20th century. among the prominent people she interviewed are President Bill Clinton, who acknowledged her during his last State of the Union address, President Jimmy Carter, Margaret Thatcher, Rosa Parks, Mel Gibson, Bill Cosby, arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, Dan Rather and Larry King. Mrs. Cohen was also a mentee of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and was active during the Civil Rights Movement. Mrs. Cohen has also worked as a columnist for the Boston Herald, U.S. News and World Report and served as a spokeswoman for avon Cosmetics. She has been a judge for the White House Fellows Program and advised the Miss America Organization.
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Anne & EmmettAnne & Emmett
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anne & emmett is an imaginary conversation between anne Frank and emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Frank is the 13-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a gripping perspective of the Holocaust. Till is the 14-year old African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi sparked the American Civil Rights Movement. the one-act play opens with the two teenagers meeting in Memory, a place that isolates them from the cruelty they experienced during their lifetime. the beyond-the-grave encounter draws the startling similarities between the two youths harrowing experience and the atrocities against their respective race. In Memory, anne recounts hiding in a cramped attic with her family after German dictator adolf Hitler ordered the Nazi military to round up Jews and put them in concentration camps en route to gas chambers. anne died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in March 1945, a few weeks before British troops liberated the concentration camp. emmett tells anne about how he, in 1955, ended up being brutally attacked by a group of racists and thrown in the Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin fan tied to his neck. This happened after he whistled at a white woman while visiting his uncle in Money, Mississippi. Playwright Janet Langhart Cohen has more than mere conversation in mind, as she draws an astonishing connective thread between two seemingly unrelated events. Ultimately,anne & emmett is a passionate call to action for those who care about the persistence of intolerance and injustice in the modern world and seek hope.
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atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St Ne, Washington, DC 03 Nov 2011
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Produced by William S. Cohen . Presented by atlas Performing Arts Center
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