and 56% of Latter-day Saints all say life is worse today compared to the 1950s. Hispanic Catholics (47%) and Black ...

Although Black life expectancy has risen from 60.5 years in the 1950s to 76.0 in the 2010s—surpassing the 13 percent gain seen among White Americans—the lost years of life remain staggering.

She began “Rooftop” knowing only there was a mother who was a Black woman. Learning about 1950s and ’60s jazz ... growing up in Jim Crow South, my life couldn’t look more different.

As a Black man, he normally wouldn’t have been ... residents for more oral histories of African Americans about life in the 1950s. Those stories helped to craft the home’s totally new ...

Challenges and Triumphs of Black Musicians in the 1950s The fame and influence of ... B.B. King (1925-2015) breathed new life into the genre with an expressive vocal style and poignant guitar ...

In fact, Borden played five years and in 57 games, the most by any Black Packer in the 1950s. In his final season ... have had difficulty adapting to life in a strange city far from home, he ...

Imagine, if you will, a Black Mae West in Memphis in the early 1950s: elegant ... but she knew how to live a life. Danielle Dreilinger is an American South storytelling reporter and the author ...

What is most surprising to Jacobs and several cast members is that Ruby wasn’t sentenced to life ... in the 1950s in the world premiere musical “Ruby” at the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe.