Every spring, millions of teenagers across the United States take part in a quintessentially American rite of passage known as the high school prom. Experienced by rich and poor, black and white, Jewish and Catholic, Californians and Virginians, prom...

The abbreviation PROM can stand for the...

"I am a social debutante, and I'm here looking for a lady caller," said Kenan Thompson of Saturday Night Live, literally on tiptoes as he peered into a crowd of pretty girls. He was cornered next to the bar with some of his co-stars at...

For the first time, the faces of students at the Turner County High School prom were both white and black.Each year, in spite of integration, the school's white students had raised money for their own unofficial prom and black students did the same to throw...

When school officials announce the name of the Fresno High School prom king on Saturday, Cinthia Covarrubias will be wearing a tuxedo just like the six boys vying for the honor. Administrators agreed to reverse a district protocol this week that limited males to compete...

The music wafted out of the ballroom and down the hallway as the prom-goers broke away for portraits against a printed backdrop of a medieval castle.There had been the traditional couples pose _ the boys in suits, the girls in gowns. And then a group...