The 2025 edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, a.k.a. Jazz Fest, began on Thursday with Goose, John Fogerty, ...

For example, the Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary Jazz Orchestra and Performing Arts Ensemble will kick off the first weekend on Thursday. There also are performances by International School of ...

Black women received the right to join the WACs in 1943 after a hard fought battle by Mary McLeod Bethune and her allies ... degrees or working as former school teachers, the Six Triple ...

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He hopes to work with the City of High Point to honor Johnson, who attended William Penn High School ... Oprah Winfrey as Mary McLeod Bethune and Sam Waterston as Franklin Roosevelt.

SAN DIEGO (CN) — A actress and playwright claims the San Diego County Library violated the Civil Rights Act by cancelling her one-person show that included performances of Black historical figures ...

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Washington, DC: Front view of the Museum of African American History and Culture Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Fatimah Dixon (April 7, 2025, WASHINGTON, D.C.) – – The National Council of ...

Black organizations and civil rights figures, like Mary McLeod Bethune, pushed for Black women in the WAC to get the same opportunity to serve overseas. Under mounting pressure — and a growing ...