Born in Detroit, Smith grew up in Columbus, OH before heading off to Howard University in Washington, D.C. and then on to New ...

Even after 55 years in business at her Hampson Street boutique, Yvonne LaFleur works six days a week making hats, fitting ...

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has ...

Basketball legend Julius Erving — also known as "Dr. J" — will be the next featured speaker in the African American Museum of Southern Arizona's "Fireside Chat" series.

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Jimmy Carter has joined the ancestors. He was 100 years old. He was one of my favorite and most passionately active ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt ... The allegations against Mangione are now playing out in three different courts. In New York state court, if convicted of the top charge of first ...

In “The Icon and the Idealist,” Stephanie Gorton ... with the goal of repealing both the New York State and federal Comstock laws. When Sanger returned to the United States a year later ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning ... Alabama and Mississippi don't have state minimum wage laws. The minimum wage in New York is $16 in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester, and $15 ...

Hydeia Broadbent Hydeia Broadbent, the HIV/AIDS activist, came to national prominence in the 1990s as a young child for her inspirational talks to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born ...

A.J. Weberman — the writer and gadfly who gained notoriety in the 1970s by picking through Bob Dylan’s garbage — recently ...