Giant faces of four great American presidents are cut into the rock near the top of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

In nineteen forty-one, a leader in the black community,A.Philip Randolph, threatened to lead a giant march on Washington for civil rights for blacks.

VOA: special.2011.06.30

It let out a long, soft cry to the cold stars in the black sky.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Boas recognized Hurston's storytelling ability and deep interest in the black culture of the South.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was "back in the black with its first profit in three years."

VOA: special.2009.04.26

So a company that is "in the black" is making money.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The dam is in the Black Canyon, near Las Vegas,Nevada.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

To the Lady in Black it was a yet more painful reminder of that other one who was not there.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

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

VOA: special.2011.06.12

And,in the summer, the temperature in the desert in Black Canyon could reach as high as forty-eight degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

In the nineteen sixties, a major black civil rights group declared it the national song of black people in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

In nineteen seventy-three, Ashe was the first black player to be invited to compete in the South African Open.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

In one part of the state of Oaxaca, potters have been making black clay containers in the same way for centuries.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

In time,however, there was another reason to fight: to free the black people held as slaves in the South.

VOA: special.2009.10.08