Little is known of the early life of Rebecca Cox Jackson, a black woman who became an eldress in the Shaker religion and founded a Shaker community in Philadelphia. Rebecca was born in 1795 to a ...

Also a musician, he is the lead vocalist for the Grammy-winning comedy rock band Tenacious D. Black is best known for his roles in films including “School of Rock,” “Tropic Thunder” and ...

This, he admits, is not what he imagined when he became a Shaker at age 21. He never wanted to lead a religion. When he arrived, he’d never dealt ... sexes and races. (Black Americans were ...

and in 1817 the Shakers’ southern societies freed the slaves belonging to members and began buying black believers out of slavery. The Shakers were suddenly appreciated as successful ...

The Black experience isn’t always well represented in Hollywood, but the best Black movies on Netflix right now are well-curated in Netflix’s Black Stories collection. However, like every ...

Woodson’s 95-year-old widow, Joann, was presented Tuesday with the Distinguished Service Cross he was awarded posthumously ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that v ...

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For a dryer version, go easy on the vermouth (or simply open a bottle in the vicinity of your cocktail shaker rather than adding any ... The bartenders at Fort Defiance in Brooklyn came up with this ...

It’s got its original interior, long dark wood bars and high perching stools, soaring windows, walls of the sort of “magnolia ...

Galleries of memorabilia – including a Babe Ruth bat and Hank Aaron's 700th home run bat – await, as do interactive exhibits such as one on Black ballplayers. General admission includes a ...