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

VOA: special.2011.06.12

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

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

The Harlem Renaissance was a period in which black artists explored their culture and showed pride in their race.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

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

And every year on January nineteenth -- Poe's birthday -- people watch for a man dressed in black to appear.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

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 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

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

VOA: special.2011.06.12

But that is just what scientists are planning to do deep below the Black Hills in South Dakota.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

He was first elected in 1989 to complete the term of Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, who died in office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Her job was to tell the story of the black people who worked in the country's gold mines.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.09