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

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

He knew not why. There in the black darkness by the side of the body, he remembered everything without a shock.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

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

In the nineteen forties, she was the first black woman to sign a long-term agreement with a major Hollywood movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

The Negro League teams were started in the nineteen twenties to give black people a place to play baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

The song was about injustice and oppression of black people in the southern part of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

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

Playing! The Lady in Black looked at them with serious eyes, and her mouth hardened at the corners.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

The former cotton picker and beauty technician now was the only licensed black woman pilot in the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

We stopped in the afternoons to fish for a few minutes in little rivers turned black by the acid of cypress trees.

VOA: special.2010.01.30