Donation Options Search Search Search Chicago Housing Authority Commissioner Mildred Harris stands before a sign Wednesday at a newly rehabbed senior apartment building at 6360 S. Minerva Ave.

‘Mildred Pierce’ features several operatic scenes in the final two episodes, which debuted Sunday. As a young girl, Veda was an aspiring pianist, but after her voice is discovered, her career ...

Mildred Harris was born in South Carolina in 1926. She moved to Harlem as a baby, when her parents, Eddie and Jessie Mae Harris, joined the wave of African-Americans fleeing the South as part of ...