Author: Barbara Quarshie

Josephine Melville was a British actress, screenwriter, and director. She was born in Essex and has appeared in films such as “The Bill,” “Prime Suspect,” and “Casualty.” Melville participated in “Know Your Roots” last year, a project that held workshops and recorded interviews across Essex to celebrate and preserve the history of Black women’s hair.…

Lola Daviet was a 12-year-old girl, who was discovered dead inside a plastic trunk. According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, Lola went missing on Friday,  October 14, 2022, afternoon and her body was discovered that evening by a homeless man outside her 19th arrondissement building. According to the prosecutor’s statement, an autopsy revealed Lola died…

Lola Daviet, a 12-year-old girl, was discovered dead inside a plastic trunk. According to the prosecutor’s statement, an autopsy revealed Lola died of “cardio-respiratory failure with the manifestation of asphyxia,” and there were signs of cervical compression. Her hands and feet were tied, and two Post-It notes with the numbers ‘0’ and ‘1’ were taped…

Jim Bolla was a college basketball coach from the United States and the father of a daughter named Sasha. Sasha was a standout volleyball player at Coronado High School before going on to play at DePaul University, where she is currently a junior. From 1982 to 1996, Jim Bolla was the head women’s basketball coach…

Jim Bolla, a former Pitt basketball player and assistant coach, died on Friday, October 21, 2022, at the age of 70. Bolla was diagnosed with cancer in August of this year. Bolla played for the Pitt basketball team from 1971 to 1975, beginning as a centre on the 1974 Elite Eight team. Bolla remained with…

Jim Bolla was a college basketball coach from the United States. Bolla, who was born in Pittsburgh, graduated from Bishop Canevin High School in 1970. From 1971 to 1975, he played college basketball at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the starting centre from 1973 to 1975. The 1974 team finished 10th in the…

Dallas Boychuk is a former women’s basketball and the wife of Jim Bolla, a college basketball coach from the United States. The couple had one daughter named Sasha. Dallas Boychuk was the women’s basketball coach at Long Beach State. From 1982 to 1996, Jim Bolla was the head women’s basketball coach at the University of Nevada,…

Peter Schjeldahl, the New Yorker’s art critic and a half-century-long New York City art scene prose stylist, passed away on October 21, 2022, at the age of 80. Although the cause of death of Schjeldahl has not been officially determined, he was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 77 in 2019. Over the…

Peter Schjeldahl was a poet, art critic, and educator from the United States. Schjeldahl was born on March 20, 1942, in Fargo, North Dakota. His father, Gilmore, invented the airsickness bag and founded the company that built NASA’s first communications satellite; his mother, Charlene worked in Gilmore’s office. He attended Carleton College and The New…

Peter Schjeldahl was a popular American art critic, poet, educator and the father of Ada Calhoun Schjeldahl. Ada Calhoun Schjeldahl is a nonfiction author. She has written about her childhood fascination with the suburbs in The New York Times Magazine. As a teenager, she visited India and met Mother Teresa. In 1998, she changed her…