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The emotional intensity of the Olympics can be viewed through two very different lenses: the real-life story of Tai Babilonia and the animated fever dream that is Animalympics. One is a story of devastating loss at the height of ambition. The other is an animal parody of the Olympics that quietly helped finance TRON... (AP Photo, Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner) On Thin Ice : The Tai Babilonia Story In the heart of Black History month, we remember that at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, Tai Babilonia and her skating partner Randy Gardner were favorites for gold. They were charismatic, technically strong, and widely expected to win. The pressure was huge, but they were ready for it. Then, just before the competition, Gardner suffered a groin injury. They had to withdraw from the 1980 Winter Olympics. After years of training for that exact moment, it was over before it even began. The TV film On Thin Ice tells the story of what happened next. It focuses not just on the injury b...

Originally published June 19, 2020 and updated June 19th, 2023 Commemorating an American Hero. Frederick Douglass wrote a letter to Harriet Tubman and said the following: "The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism…I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have."   This Juneteenth we spotlight a story about an incredible American hero who changed the world.  TheArchive  proudly presents  A Woman Called Moses , a miniseries honoring the life of Harriett Tubman who summoned the strength and indomitable will to defy and overcome a tyrannous system. Debuting in 1978... A Woman Called Moses  was produced as a television miniseries and based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped slave who organized the infamous Underground Railroad, ultimately leading scores from enslav...

Frederick Douglass wrote a letter to Harriet Tubman and said the following:  "The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism…I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have."  We are spotlighting the true story of an incredible American hero who changed the world and whose influence continues to do so today. TheArchive proudly presents A Woman Called Moses , the seminal miniseries honoring the life of Harriett Tubman who summoned the strength and indomitable will to defy and overcome a tyrannous system.  Debuting in 1978, A Woman Called Moses was produced as a television miniseries and based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped slave who organized the infamous Underground Railroad, ultimately leading scores from enslavement to freedom.  Emmy, Tony, and Oscar-Winning Cicely Tyson delivers a tour de force performance as Tubman. The l...