There’s no neon, no blaring soundtrack to drown out the screams. Wildwood’s Great White roller coaster is a pure and simple thrill ride, a wood and steel throwback rattling the bones above the ...

In 1946, a group of Black and white activists, many of them members of the Chicago Committee of Racial Equality or CORE, targeted a South Side roller rink that refused to admit Black skaters.

Thousands of balloons and 500 white pigeons are released ... July 1976: Python, a roller coaster that goes 50 mph, opened at Busch Gardens in Tampa. (It closed in 2006.) ...