In 1921 Coleman became the first African American woman to be awarded an international ... and diving under the stage name Queen Bess. Throughout her career, she would only perform at shows ...

It was 1973--a few years before the term African-American would become part of the national vernacular, and Alabama had never elected a black homecoming queen. Not even a decade had passed since ...

*(Los Angeles) — Film and TV actress LisaRaye McCoy is about to add a new regal title to her name: Queen Mother of ... Thousands of African-Americans have traveled to Ghana this year to ...

Breakthrough: Courtney Pearson, the first ever African-American homecoming queen at the University of Mississippi, rides in the homecoming parade in Oxford, Miss. on Friday, Oct. 12 ...

According to Dona Nichols, an SJSU journalism professor and a member of the homecoming judging panel, said there has been an African-American queen before, but never a duo. African Americans ...

Aline Jenkins Howard, crowned in 1940 the first African American Queen of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (MAMGA), has died at the age of 97. She passed away at a local hospital this morning.

On Friday night, Igbo-Ogbonna metaphorically melted the St. Paul Heritage & Festival Foundation’s icy glass ceiling by becoming the first African-American woman to be crowned Aurora, Queen of ...

"I went through it and it made my head explode. She has more contemporary African-American art than most museums." "Queen" started life as a 2017 exhibition at New Orleans' Xavier University ...