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Gay leaders turn to old nemesis, the police, for safety

Edit Boston Herald 18 Jun 2016
Decades ago, an early morning raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York sparked violent protests among gay patrons who fought back after police burst in and tried to arrest them for daring to drink and dance with members of the same sex ... Living an open gay lifestyle was unheard of across most of the U.S ... Diana Sands said that is driving the shift in attitude. "That change has been revolutionary in the last decade," said Sands, who is gay ... ....

Boeing Names New Human Resources Leader

Edit Stockhouse 16 Dec 2015
Also effective March 1, Parasida's administrative responsibilities, which include the company's corporate administration, shared services support organization and global corporate citizenship activities will transition to Diana Sands, senior vice president, Office of Internal Governance and Administration, and executive council member. ....

Boeing Names New Human Resources Leader - Parasida announces plans to retire- Capozzi elected to replace Parasida effective March 2016- Sands to take on company administration role

Edit PR Newswire 16 Dec 2015
Also effective March 1, Parasida's administrative responsibilities, which include the company's corporate administration, shared services support organization and global corporate citizenship activities will transition to Diana Sands, senior vice president, Office of Internal Governance and Administration, and executive council member. ....

Boeing Names New Human Resources Leader (The Boeing Company)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Dec 2015
Also effective March 1, Parasida's administrative responsibilities, which include the company's corporate administration, shared services support organization and global corporate citizenship activities will transition to Diana Sands, senior vice president, Office of Internal Governance and Administration, and executive council member....

Early-TV oddities, innovations to screen as part of UCLA archive's anniversary

Edit The Los Angeles Times 23 May 2015
"Archive Television Treasures" certainly lives up to its name ... The festival isn't a greatest hits of the era, though ... ( Oliver Gettell ) ... 8 ... Circa 1915 ... --> ... 0 ... Scott and Cicely Tyson in a story centered on a struggling African American couple (James Earl Jones and Diana Sands) whose infant daughter is bitten by a rat in their Harlem tenement ... "What James Earl Jones and Diana Sands bring to that episode can't be overstated ... ....

Waterford farmer who challenged South Africa’s apartheid regime

Edit The Irish Times 22 Nov 2014
Diana Sandes, who has died aged 92, witnessed as the child of a distinguished British military family the high noon of the British empire, spending part of her childhood in 1930s Bermuda, where her father was garrison commander ... Diana Sandes was born in Portsmouth, the only child of Gerald Wildman-Lushington, an officer in the Royal Marines, and Catherine Trounce, daughter of a Cornish banker....

Insider Transactions

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 10 Nov 2014
0 comments. Travel Deals. $249 & up -- Ends 11/16. Caribbean Cruise Sale w/Upgrades.  . See all travel deals ». Posted. Monday, November 10, 2014, 1.08 AM. Securities trades recently reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission by officers, directors and principal shareholders of corporations based or having sizable employment in the Philadelphia area ... Ace Ltd ... J ... Diana L. Sands, officer, sold 10,100 shares at $123.88 on Oct ... 18 ... ....

Film Friday: 'A Raisin In The Sun' starring Sidney Poitier & Ruby Dee

Edit Celebrity Café 14 Sep 2014
Filmed stage plays had reached their height by the end of the 1950s, but there was still one more statement to be made in 1961. The days of glorious Tennessee Williams adaptations were long over by then ... Instead, Columbia Pictures picked it up ... Travis has to sleep on the couch though, because Walter's younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands) and his mother Lena (Claudia McNeil) share the second bedroom ... just let the camera roll ... Tweet ... ....

Rhodessa Jones: Ruby Dee a guiding light for social change

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 17 Jun 2014
I went in search of Ruby Dee, the artist/activist/writer among my community of family, friends and artists ... Ms ... She stood up, pulling me into her arms, holding me tight as she gushed in that breathy, restless, probing husky voice, "I haven't experienced such power, such passion, such fire since Diana Sands!" She was the great young actress who played Benita opposite her in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway in 1959....

Ruby Dee dead at 91. Another underrated genius is gone

Edit The Examiner 12 Jun 2014
I met and interviewed them many times throughout the years, always asking about Diana Sands and always asking about Dorothy Dandridge. They were always shocked that as a young white "kid" I knew Diana and Dorothy and their tragic demises....

Maya Angelou dies: A look at the acclaimed poet's movie career

Edit The Los Angeles Times 28 May 2014
Following is a look at some of her cinematic accomplishments. Caption Maya Angelou dies ... (Astrid Stawiarz / Getty Images) ... Though the movie, about a black American singer (Diana Sands) who comes to Stockholm for a show and falls in love with a white American photojournalist (Michael Winters), is somewhat obscure, Angelou's script became the first by an African American woman ever to be filmed, and it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize ... ....

Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86

Edit The Washington Post 28 May 2014
Ms ... She died May 28 at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C., at age 86, according to her literary agent Helen Brann ... GoingOut Guide ... Angelou published her first volume of poetry in 1971, “Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Diiie.” The following year, she wrote the screenplay for the film “Georgia, Georgia,” about a black woman (played by Diana Sands) murdered for taking a white photographer as a lover ... ....

President Obama attends 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Edit The Wichita Eagle 12 Apr 2014
NEW YORK — Tickets to watch Denzel Washington on Broadway in "A Raisin in the Sun" are hard to come by, but one man managed it — President Barack Obama ... They took their seats to huge applause ... A huge ovation greeted its end ... The director is Kenny Leon ... The original Broadway production in 1959 featured Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil and Diana Sands, who reunited for a 1961 film adaptation ... ---....
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