Before Herb Kent “The Cool Gent,” Don Cornelius and so many others, there was Jack L. Cooper, who pioneered a Black radio empire in Chicago.

Despite the changing of the guard in Venezuela orchestrated by the U.S., the regime still imprisons pro-democracy leaders. But one call from Trump could change all that.

"We were at war, you know," says Chervak, who will be 100 years old on Feb. 12. He wears a baseball cap emblazoned with the ...