Surya Bonaly changed figure skating in a way the sport still feels today

Before 3D movies or modern medical imaging ever existed, a Black woman at NASA imagined something

Alabama is one of America’s richest fossil graveyards, a place where ancient seas, giant marine

Alabama is one of the richest places on Earth for carnivorous plant biodiversity

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Henry Boyd is the reason your bed does not collapse underneath you

Chadwick Boseman’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star is finally complete, but his legacy was written into

People don’t talk about it much anymore, but James Dean’s Porsche has one of the strangest

A Black inventor named Albert C

Alabama has no shortage and talent and star power

Wrigley Field has carried more than a century of cheers, heartbreak, and devotion

In Abbeville, Alabama, they said a tall woman in black roamed the streets after dark

Deep in the pine forests of Alabama, something was encountered by locals in Evergreen

When Nichelle Nichols appeared on television as Lieutenant Uhura, she showed the world a version of

The banjo is one of America’s oldest instruments, created by Africans in the early days of the

Locals don’t talk much about Smedley Road

She wasn’t really from Jamaica, and she wasn’t running a billion dollar psychic empire, but she was

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In 1988, Florence “Flo-Jo” Griffith Joyner ran 100 meters in 10.49 seconds, a record that has stood

Before the Savannah Bananas, the Indianapolis Clowns had already wrote the sports entertainment

They never told us how Linda Martell became a country music legend

D’Angelo reminded the world that soul isn’t a genre, it’s a truth

Wendell Scott made history as the first Black driver to win a NASCAR Grand National race, doing it

Kudzu swallows everything it sees…but it didn’t have to become the untamable beast of the South

Before cameras were tools for influencers, Gordon Parks used his to influence change

Lonnie Johnson invented the Super Soaker, holds more than 100 U.S

The South is full of myths: snakes that smell like cucumbers, panthers that scream like women, owls

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Zora Neale Hurston wasn’t just a novelist

Mother Catherine Seals was known as the 9th Ward saint who healed bodies, spirits, and divided

The Union raid burned Tuscaloosa to the ground in 1865, but a few houses remained

In Idaho’s Snake River Plain, where summer heat can hit 100 degrees outside, but inside, the cave is

The ghost in my coffee shop is evolving…? Lol #haunted #coffeeshop

Everything I found about my coffee shop Coffee Shop building history

The Godmother of Rock—Sister Rosetta Tharpe #music #rock #rockstar #facts #didyouknow

Gordon Parks’ legacy goes beyond Shaft

I stayed in Alabama’s own castle—Hartman Castle

Did you know that that Chicago dog is actually more than just a hot dog, but a symbol of cultural

Tony Todd’s legacy will remain forever

Without Marie Van Brittan Brown, home security systems don’t exist the way we know them today

Jordan Peele redefined the horror genre and he’s still not done yet

In Living Color was a monumental shift in mainstream television and moved the needle for numerous

Jerry Lawson was the pioneer of modern gaming and deserves his flowers now #facts #gaming

Black Jockeys built American horse racing…with the same skills they had been forced to learn for

Linda Martell was a forerunner for many of the new faces we see in the country genre

Nearest Green was a master in the craft of distilling and now we get to see why #unclenearest

They became the first fully trained paramedics in the country—and it started because their community

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Living Colour did things in rock that are still being felt today—and maybe it’s time we revisit

Another exotic animal running wild in Alabama

Kendrick Lamar has accomplished a lot more than people give him credit for with JUST his music

Robert Johnson sold his soul to have supernatural musical ability…or so they said.. #robertjohnson

We know bees and other animals and insects can think because Charles Henry Turner discovered it

Rosetta Tharpe—the Godmother of Rock #rosettatharpe #rock #music #facts #history #didyouknow

Black Herman was more than a magician

Jack Daniel should have been called Nearest Green, but we need to know the story of how we got here

Frederick McKinley Jones didn’t just changed one industry

She healed people with just a touch or a word—Mother Catherine Seals #healer #faithhealer

The McRaven House #mcravenhouse #urbanlegend #paranormal #folklore #travel #south #education

Valerie Thomas—icon for NASA and the paranormal #invention #inventor #technology #nasa #3d