“If someone had proposed that the Modern Civil Rights Movement start in Tidewater, it never would have gotten off the ground.”
You may not remember that in 1968 McDonalds sold its first Big Mac for 49 cents, the first 911 emergency- service-phone call was dialed in Haleyville,...
Fifty years after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we still call forth the “dream” he spoke of in his famous “I Have A...
HAMPTON ROADS A crowd of roughly 3,000 people gathered in Town Point Park in Norfolk on Saturday (March 24) to protest school shootings and gun violence,...
Madame C.J. Walker launched her hair-care line in 1905 with about $2 and a dream. While her personal fortune was worth an estimated $600,000 to $700,000...
The portion of the Southside Connector of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) proposed to be built through three majority African-American neighborhoods in Chesapeake poses a risk...
The Olde Hampton neighborhood center will be named after Mary Jackson, a Hampton native and one of the first women of color to work at NASA...
Norfolk City Council members and civic leaders are seeking to deter plans to open a solid waste material recovery facility (MRF) in the Barraud Park/Bruce’s Park/Lindenwood/Cottage...
Sissieretta (Joyner) Jones was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1868, but, after she retired from stage, she lived the rest of her life in Providence, Rhode...
The 600-mile underground Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is designed, according to its supporters, to expand the supply of natural gas, lower costs and supply employment to ...