The name "Aunt Jemima" is familiar to millions, but not as many know the remarkable woman behind the iconic trademark was ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Quaker Oats Company have given Aunt Jemima a new name and new look, but the families of some of the women who portrayed her over the years feel they are being erased. "It's a ...

The face of pancakes and syrup died along with Uncle Ben and Rastus, who were the faces of rice and Cream of Wheat, in 2020. Their painless but overdue deaths came in the wake of the murder of George ...

(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 ...

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 ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A pancake festival in honor of actress Lilian Richard, who played The Quaker Oats character, Aunt Jemima, took place Saturday in Hawkins. Richards was born in Hawkins, which is ...

Families of some of the women who portrayed Aunt Jemima for The Quaker Oats Company, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, want the world to know they oppose the move to change the image or discontinue the brand.

Quaker Oats announced last week that they are going to retire their Aunt Jemima brand of pancake mix and syrup due to it being based on a racial stereotype. This decision is a response to the Black ...

Yesterday’s Tomorrow, a Black history museum, marked the end of Black History Month and the start of Women’s History Month with a Saturday event in Tyler featuring a relative of Lillian Richard — the ...

CLAIM: “Nancy Green (aka Aunt Jemima) was born into slavery. She was a magnificent cook. When she was ‘freed’ she rolled her talent into a cooking brand that General Mills bought & used her likeness.

Ferris Bueller’s economics teacher is getting slammed on social media for his rant about America’s corporate culture ... and pancake syrup. On Monday night, Ben Stein, the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” ...

A Tennessee woman said she plans to file a formal complaint with the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners after her dermatologist allegedly referred to her as “Aunt Jemima” during a visit July 11, ...