First time black women win all three biggest US pageants - BBC News

6 May 2019 ... This year's winners of Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss America are all African-American women.

Hattie McDaniel becomes first African American actress to win Oscar ...

She left school while a teenager to become a performer in several traveling minstrel groups and in 1924 became one of the first African American women to sing ...

Miss Universe GB: First black winner Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers on ...

18 Jul 2018 ... The first black woman to be crowned Miss Universe Great Britain in the pageant's 66-year history has called it "a great achievement". Dee-Ann ...

Booker Prize Winner 'Girl, Woman, Other' Is Coming to America ...

1 Nov 2019 ... Bernardine Evaristo, the first black woman to win the literary award, talks about her mission to write about the African diaspora and why her ...

List of black Academy Award winners and nominees - Wikipedia

Second Black woman to receive multiple Oscar nominations in the same year. Third person nominated for an acting award and a music award (Best Original ...

Physics Nobel Prize for 2020 - The Washington Post

6 Oct 2020 ... Ghez, a professor at UCLA, became the fourth woman to win a ... for Physics announce the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday in Stockholm. ... This year's physics Nobel honored the theoretical side of black holes ...

Every Black Oscar Winner | Hollywood Reporter

27 Feb 2016 ... Oscars: A Look Back at the African-American Winners ... I Love You" from The Woman in Red, beating out Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" from ...

Durham, first Black US women's gymnastics champion, dies

4 Feb 2021 ... Dianne Durham, the first Black woman to win a USA Gymnastics national championship, died Thursday in Chicago following a short illness, her ...

MacArthur Foundation 'genius grants': Trio of Black female authors ...

6 Oct 2020 ... Three prominent Black female authors in science fiction, young adult literature and essay writing are among the 21 winners of this year's ...

Black hole breakthroughs win Nobel physics prize - BBC News

6 Oct 2020 ... Prof Ghez is only the fourth woman to win the physics prize, out of more than 200 laureates since 1901. The other female recipients are Marie ...

Emmett woman wins $1 million Idaho Raffle | ktvb.com

9 Jan 2020 ... BOISE, Idaho — An Emmett woman is the big winner of this year's Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle. Idaho Lottery officials say that Joyce Black only ...

Booker winner's mission to put UK's forgotten black writers back in ...

9 Jan 2021 ... The author of Girl, Woman, Other has curated “Black Britain, Writing Back”, a series that launches in February, with six initial titles ranging from ...

First Lady Casey DeSantis Announces 2020 Black History Month ...

26 Feb 2020 ... – Today, First Lady Casey DeSantis announced the Black History Month student contest winners and Excellence in Education Award recipients.

CMA winner Maren Morris gives nod to Black country music artists ...

18 Nov 2020 ... Palmer said the representation of Black women in country music is almost zero. " There is definitely a Black woman problem in country music," ...

10 Black Actors and Actresses Who've Won Oscars - Biography

7 Jan 2019 ... These African American stars broke racial barriers by winning an ... making her the only African American woman to date to have won in the ...

Breadwinning Mothers Continue To Be the U.S. Norm - Center for ...

10 May 2019 ... Women of color, and black women especially, have always been more ... than twice as likely as white mothers to be their family's breadwinner, ...

The First Black Miss World Looks Back 50 Years Later | Time

25 Sep 2020 ... But Hosten not only stood out—she went on to take home the top honors, becoming the first Black woman to win the international beauty ...

The Big Winners in DA Races: Women and Black Candidates ...

12 Nov 2018 ... In Boston this month, voters elected Rachael Rollins as the first black woman to serve as district attorney in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

Physicists who unravelled mysteries of black holes win Nobel prize

6 Oct 2020 ... Ghez, at the University of California, Los Angeles, is just the fourth woman to win the physics prize — the Nobel award with the fewest female ...

The True Story of "Hidden Figures," the Forgotten Women Who ...

8 Sep 2016 ... More videos on YouTube · Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the ...