(CHICAGO) — Under the grass it is barely noticeable: an unmarked grave covering one of America’s “Hidden Figures” for nearly a century. You probably have never heard her name, but Nancy Green has ...

After the Quaker Oats Company purchased the Aunt Jemima Mills Company in 1926 — which was then known for its ready-made "self-rising pancake flour" — it eventually introduced Aunt Jemima syrup 40 ...

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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (WVLA) — Almost four months after the announcement that Aunt Jemima products would be rebranded as “Pearl Milling Company,” the new-look products are finally hitting store shelves ...

Aunt Jemima was a brand well known to internet users as a target of online rumors. We’ve checked a number of them — from a photograph that claimed to show Aunt Jemima chained to a table to the claim ...

But for some, the title, the image, even the updated version sans headwrap, evokes other feelings, including anger, over a racial stereotype of a black woman with no apparent life of her own. One who ...

Ben Stein is missing Aunt Jemima. Yesterday (Feb. 21), a video of the actor, comedian and writer professing his love for the fictional syrup model began making its rounds on social media. Since then, ...

For 130 years, Americans made ready-mix pancakes from a secret recipe reportedly purchased from a southern “mammy” named Aunt Jemima. But there was no Aunt Jemima. The fictional African American ...

There is a small, unremarkable, grave marker in Oakwood Cemetery bearing the inscription, Anna Harrington, 1897-1955. Yet, Ms. Harrington lived a life that was anything but ordinary. In fact, it seems ...