Here are some activities and entertainments to enjoy in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area.

Starting at age 7, Nigerian immigrant Obie Sanni found baseball through another family, one in which proud African-American men pass down the love of baseball like an heirloom.

Famous American chef Julia Child developed a shark repellent while ... In some cases, inventions created by women were copied by other inventors and became the profitable household products ...

Here are some activities and entertainments to enjoy in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area.

If you want people to live downtown, it needs to be livable for families with children. 2. A giant letter-sculpture ... without declaration of war from Congress. Last year three African American ...

Black inventors and innovators like George Washington Carver ... “He filed a lawsuit, but he was a young African American man. He didn’t have the money to fight it. Think about what it would have been ...

Frank Schiffman Apollo Theatre Collection / Archives Center / National Museum of American History ... wife might want—ranging from remedies for children’s scaly rashes to details about ...

John Mercer Langston be­comes the first African American elect­ed to public office when he wins the po­sition of clerk of Brownhelm Township, in Ohio. Though not well known today, Langston was one of ...

A new book will focus on South Carolina's first African American female physician.

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

A braid into a memory. More African American parents today are teaching their children the rich histories behind braiding. They’re showing them how to honor their roots while embracing innovation.

Two American women were arrested at a California immigration checkpoint after border patrol agents determined they were attempting to smuggle two children into the United States. The women were ...