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Swan-necked and with an arched-eyebrow hauteur, Helen Williams was the aspirational face of the Black middle class in the 1950s and 60s — the mos

His character was idolised, he said: ‘Kids are running around in black leather jackets and are swaggering’

Judge Betty Staton co-founded the first African-American female law firm in the state of New York.

For the Josephine Baker-inspired show, the artist created 13 photo collages celebrating a new pantheon of Black women, including singer Nina Simone and model Naomi Sims.

Trudy Haynes, who became Philadelphia's first Black TV reporter in 1965, died Tuesday morning. She was 95. During a three-decade career at CBS3, Haynes paved the way for a more diverse generation of journalists. She started her TV career by becoming the first Black weather reporter at a station in Detroit in 1963.

When Ebony magazine debuted in 1945, it pulled in readers with a photo of Hollywood star Lena Horne. It’s not surprising that a popular entertainer would be featured in a magazine that, according to publisher and founder John H. Johnson, had a mission to showcase the “whole spectrum of black life.” But that photo of Horne was more than it seemed. It, and the concurrent rise of Black-owned beauty-centered businesses, were all part of a challenge to mainstream standards of attractiveness....