5. Lillian Holland Harvey Registered nurse Lillian Holland Harvey is best known for her work in education. She became Dean of Tuskegee University School of Nursing in 1948 and held the position for ...

Whitten poured out a layer of black paint; spattered it, haphazardly, with white dots; let it dry; and then used a razor to cut the resulting sheet into tiles. Only then did he fashion a universe ...

Black smoke emerging from the chimney means the world's 1.4 billion Catholics don't yet have a new pope. White smoke means the cardinals have chosen a new leader of the church.

Rosa Parks’ death on Oct. 24, 2005, came almost exactly 50 years after she made history by refusing to leave her seat for a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This simple act of ...

1 1/2 cups vanilla ice cream (such as Bluebell Homemade Vanilla) 2 tablespoons whole milk 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup (such as Ghirardelli), plus more for garnish 1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the age of 16, he went to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, where he focused on public speaking and debate, according to Tuskegee University. >> Lift every voice and sing ...

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 ...

Stewart was among the first 1,000 Black pilots in the 1940s who were trained at the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama before Black and white airmen were allowed to serve together.