At a dinner in Chicago later in the 1940s, Harwell and Mars decided upon the name Uncle Ben's (named for a well-known African American Texas rice farmer and now called Ben's Original); legend has it that they paid the restaurant's maître d′ $50 to pose for the iconic portrait t...
At a dinner in Chicago later in the 1940s, Harwell and Mars decided upon the name Uncle Ben's (named for a well-known African American Texas rice farmer and now called Ben's Original); legend has it that they paid the restaurant's maître d′ $50 to pose for the iconic portrait t...
Fauci participated in a question-and-answer interview with two doctors, Jamie Rutland and Italo Brown, in the first video of a planned “Barbershop Medicine” series from YouTube Originals. In the approximately nine-minute long video, posted to the American Public Health Association’...
Randolph has put herself on the front lines of the Black community's fight against COVID vaccine misinformation, part of a network of barbershops and beauty salons working with Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, who runs the Maryland Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland School of Public...
Harry Belafonte crossed racial barriers as a singer and actor and became the first African American to win an Emmy. Born in New York City to Jamaican parents, Belafonte's first hit was "Matilda," followed by "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)." He has spent his career impacting the world ...
Greg grew up along the American River in Sacramento. “I spent my childhood fascinated by wildlife, collecting butterflies and frogs and other creatures all through high school to study them,”he says. “When I found photography, I realized I could take pictures of animals instead of catch the...