Gummy bears are some of the simplest candies to make at home. At their core, they are just 4 ingredients: water, sugar, gelatin, and flavoring. Water and gelatin, when blended, heated, and cooled, naturally form a chewy candy, so no expensive equipment or odd ingredients are needed.
Even though the Collingsdale, Pa., cemetery contains the bodies of several black luminaries -- including civil rights leader Octavius Valentine Catto and opera singer Marian Anderson -- Williams didn't come for any of these big names. He was there to see John Taylor, the first African American to win Olympic gold. Taylor was a college graduate and a star athlete, recognized for his success even by then president Theodore Roosevelt. But in 1908, the same year he medaled at the Olympic games in London, he died of typhoid pneumonia.
Date: 25th March 2002. A weeping, shaking Halle Berry has become the first black woman to win a best actress Oscar, sending crashing a colour bar that has stood for 74 years. She was swiftly joined last night (24 March 2002) by Denzel Washington,making them the first blacks to win both the best actor and best actress awards at the Academy Awards.