American Beach has a storied history of being a safe place for Black Americans, and one woman made sure the beach’s history wasn’t erased. MaVynne Betsch, affectionally known as The Beach Lady, was a ...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — Federal agents working with genetic genealogists have solved the 48-year-old mystery of an unidentified woman found beaten and mutilated on a Massachusetts beach in 1974. “The ...

Lady Gaga will perform what should be a huge free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on May 3, the singer confirmed on social media today. Gaga, whose new album Mayhem is set for a March 7 ...

When I telephoned my friend MaVynee Betsch in American Beach, Florida, recently, I got her answering machine. It would be hard to overstate my amazement. An answering machine! In all the years I’ve ...

MaVynee Betsch was born in 1935, the same year her great-grandfather, A.L. Lewis, president of the Afro-American Life Insurance Co. and Florida's first Black millionaire, founded American Beach on ...

The late MaVynee Betsch, best known as "The Beach Lady" of Nassau County's American Beach, has been nominated as one of 10 finalists in the 2010/2011 Florida Women's Hall of Fame. Since 1982, the ...