Then in 1945 she became the first Black member of New York University’s teaching faculty and used her position to continue to fight for Black nurses’ rights. Osborne’s legacy lives on in the form of ...

Whitten was an artist who looked relentlessly forward, and his origins explain why. He was born in Bessemer, Alabama, a coal town, in 1939, at the height of Jim Crow.

For nearly five years, Washington’s Black Lives Matter Plaza stood as a place to mourn, celebrate, argue and ultimately renew the nation’s commitment to the fight for equality. Then, amid a ...

What black and white smoke means After the cardinals' votes are counted, the paper ballots are burned in a stove in the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke emerging from the chimney means the world's 1.4 ...

Rosa Louise McCauley was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a young child, she worked on a nearby plantation, picking cotton for 50 cents a day to help support her family. She dropped out ...

Black-and-white milkshakes, by default, incorporate vanilla into the shake’s overall flavor. You also have more control over how much or how little chocolate syrup you’d like to add to the shake.

A Tuskegee Airman describes an air-to-air dogfight in 'Wings For This Man,' a 1945 Army-produced film on the unit narrated by Ronald Reagan. Screenshot via the National Archives.

"Black Angels Over Tuskegee," a historical drama about the Tuskegee Airmen by Layon Gray, will have a free public performance Feb. 26 at The Hanover Theatre. The Tuskegee Airmen included the first ...

Vivian Malone and James Hood walked through the doors of Foster Auditorium at The University of Alabama to become the first Black students to successfully enroll at the school in 1963.This came after ...

The Tuskegee Airmen — the 332nd Fighter Group based at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama — shattered the race barrier during World War II. The unit had as many as 14,000 airmen 1,000 of them ...

First organized as a "racial experiment," a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II. They would prove their worth - and then some ...

San Antonio native Thomas Ellis (first row, left) served with the Tuskegee Airmen from 1942 to 1945. The all-Black fighter group based at Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama paved the way for the ...