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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Born a slave in 1834 in Kentucky, Nancy Green was the first Aunt Jemima "Mammy" in 1890. More than century later, Aunt Jemima no longer resembles a servant, having swapped her red bandanna for pearls ...

Quaker Oats, the parent company of Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup, says it will completely rebrand the line — including changing the name and logo — saying the current brand is based on a "racial ...

Former Boy Meets World star Will Friedle admitted to saying “stupid, insensitive things” to co-star Trina McGee, who previously said she was called “Aunt Jemima” on set. Friedle opened up when he sat ...

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” ...

Apparently, comedian, actor, and former Richard Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein is still pressed about Quaker Oats updating the historically racist Aunt Jemima brand and replacing it with a racially ...

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, ...