Leon County and Tallahassee are home to two trailblazing African American tennis legends. While one is a household name – and ...

As of 1954, Ms. Spencer was the only Florida woman ... African American tennis star with Tallahassee roots – Althea Gibson – broke the color barrier in professional tennis in 1950, eventually ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts ... The catchy 1958 hit “Yakety Yak” was performed by The Coasters, an African American vocal group. In the song, a kid is scolded for not doing his ...

Welcome to the 1950s, a decade of prosperity and Pontiacs, drive-ins and tail fins, bobby socks and poodle skirts. The decade ...

According to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, syphilis cases are at their highest levels since the 1950s in ... Hispanic Black or African American individuals ...

His character showed the world that African Americans were just as smart, kind, and hard-working as everyone else in the United States. The 1970s was also a time when women were starting to join ...

By the 1950s, African-Americans began to see the Fetchit persona as a negative ... Baker was the first Black woman to star a major film in Europe (“Siren of the Tropics”) in 1927. Her live show in ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts ... The catchy 1958 hit “Yakety Yak” was performed by The Coasters, an African American vocal group. In the song, a kid is scolded for not doing his chores and ...

Known in Ghana as the Maths Queen, Dr Angela Tabiri is the first African ... film about black American women mathematicians who worked at the US space agency, Nasa, in the 1950s, during the ...

These main attractions played a pivotal role in advancing social justice in the 1950s and 1960s ... for the higher education of African American women in the United States and is listed on the ...

Every year, the Academy Awards recognize the best cinema has to offer. Well, they're supposed to do that, but oftentimes, ...

We'll update this post as necessary. A widely shared image of a newspaper clipping supposedly published in the 1950s poses the question, "If a woman needs it, should she be spanked?" The article ...