Sarah Vaughn performed at the Flamingo Club when Lois Perry worked there as a waitress. “She once handed out a $100 bill and said, ‘Keep the change, darling,’” Perry says before breaking into laughter ...

"We want to build a website that's like Yelp for inclusivity," As a Black woman in America, her reality is filled with stories that white friends and colleagues have trouble believing, said Crystal ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: During the era of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, 87 locations in Minnesota were listed in the Green Book, a guidebook that helped Black ...

Whether it’s sitting in the top drawer of a public servant, splayed atop an editor’s desk or crammed in the backpack of an urban activist, the Green Book is a fundamental reference guide for anyone ...

A toxic green pigment was once used to color everything from fake flowers to book covers. Now a museum conservator is working to track down the noxious volumes. During the 19th century, emerald green ...

Meredith Evans remembers how her mother, Rochelle Whitaker Evans, would tell her stories about traveling from New York City to tiny Enfield, North Carolina, as a child in the 1950s. Alexander Whitaker ...

Explore The Green Book, a traveler’s guide for the black community in the Jim Crow Era. Join Novella Ford of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as she looks at two Green Books, which ...

LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — Travel hasn’t always been easy for African Americans — far from it. That’s why, during an era of segregation, “The Negro Motorist Green Book” became a vital tool to help ...

From 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was the must-have guide for African American travelers. Developed and published by Harlem postal carrier and travel writer Victor Hugo Green, the Book’s listings ...

For black Americans, the central paradox of the American automobile age was that it occurred in the middle of the Jim Crow era Jay Driskell Owning a car expanded people’s physical freedom to move, ...