Some black clergymen said that if black people were supposed to have straight hair, God would have given it to them.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Black cohosh is an herb that comes from the root or underground stems of a tall plant in the buttercup family.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

At the National Gallery of Art, visitors can see black and white photographs taken by Robert Frank during the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

So did the local police. The next day more than sixty black students took every seat at the lunch counter.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

She shook a little bell on the table, and a small black girl about 12 years old ran into the room.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

In nineteen thirty-two, the MacMillan Publishing Company agreed to help them create a collection of folk songs, especially from black Americans.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

He left the cold, black shadow of the lander and stepped into the blinding white light of the sun.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

They are a black man named Joe Christmas, and a former minister,John Hightower, who has lost his belief in God.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Yet she wanted to do more. She hoped to establish a school for black pilots in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

"Not even this much." This resistance did not stop government efforts to get the Black Hills for the miners.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips,had been looking for a white performer who could sing black rhythm and blues.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Its large rooms and affordable rent gave middle class black people a new kind of housing opportunity in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Teaching at Howard gave Duncan the chance to share his knowledge of classical European music with a mainly black student population.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Michael Jackson brought attention to his body's movements by wearing a shiny white glove, shortened black pants and white socks.

VOA: special.2009.07.05