History & Culture

Before Celia Cruz became known for her signature catchphrase, “Azucar,” she was just a young girl in Cuba absorbing the…

In 1939, Billie Holiday rode the service elevator in a midtown Manhattan hotel on her way to sing on stage. Of…

After Brazil lost the 1950 World Cup final to Uruguay, a 9 or 10-year-old Edson Arantes do Nascimento, now better…

Before Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and others raised the bar for what Black and female politicians could accomplish…

James Baldwin was one of the leading voices of the civil rights movement. The author was born in 1924 in…

For nearly three decades, educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, often called the “First Lady of the Struggle,”…

As the Great Migration of African Americans made its way north, New York City’s Harlem neighborhood became a vibrant hotspot…

One of 17 children born to formerly enslaved people, Mary McLeod Bethune spent the first few years of her life picking cotton…

On July 13, 2013, a jury in Sanford, Florida acquitted George Zimmerman of murder charges after he’d shot a Black…

Like so many times before, Prince Charles and Princess Diana were sitting in their Royal Box at the Royal Opera…