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A 12-year-old African-American girl says three of her white male classmates pinned her down and cut several of her dreadlocks. The girl, Amari Allen, tells CNN that three white boys at Immanuel ...
The African American girl’s guide to traveling for free. By Isaac Ocean Feb 18, 2025; 7:31 am; Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / GalacticDreamer.
First African American Bond girl says she can see a black Bond, but not a woman Trina Parks - assassin Thumper in 1971's Diamonds are Forever - says Miss Bond doesn't have the same ring to it.
American Girl unveils new Civil Rights-era doll 04:33. American Girl is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Since 1986, the business has sold more than 29 million dolls and more than 153 million books.
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle has made 100 drawings of 100 missing African American women, reviving the memory of lives that might otherwise fall into an oblivion.
By the 1950s, a national effort to desegregate all Girl Scout troops began. As the African American Registry reports, by 1956, Girl Scouts had become part of the early Civil Rights movement, with ...
Zaila Avant-garde, a 14-year-old from New Orleans, won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, becoming the first African-American winner in the competition’s nearly 100-year ...
A collection of about 300 architectural renderings, perspectives and blueprints in the Duke University archives chronicles one of the most remarkable stories in North Carolina’s 20th-century ...
The Charity Adams-Earley Girls Academy in Dayton is named after the commanding officer of the 6888, the all-black female-run Central Postal Directory Battalion in World War II.
American Girl by Emma Amos, from the portfolio "Impressions: Our World, Volume I," 1974 SAAM . From a description of the print now, in 2017, it sounds perfectly traditional. A black-and-white ...
Cecile Rey, an American Girl character doll with African-American and French roots, whose story is set in 1850's New Orleans. Cecile is one of four dolls being discontinued by the company this fall.