Norfolk This September, more than 100 Hampton Roads artists from all walks of life will assemble on the Wells Stage via Public Works Virginia’s initiative to...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia During segregation, Black schools in the South focused on building an environment of success for community children. Educator,...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Binghamton University Historian Anne C. Bailey has studied slavery and the plight of African-Americans for quite some time....
By Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Ph.D. Professor of History, Norfolk State University Beginning in 1619 with the arrival of “20 and odd Negroes” aboard the English ship White...
Local high school students from Booker T. Washington, Lake Taylor, and Norview displayed the flags representing countries of the Caribbean in the annual CaribFest parade down...
By Hazel Trice Edney TriceEdneyWire.com The short-term economic impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) is $15 billion – rivaling corporations such as Bank of America...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia In August 1619, more than 20 Africans landed at Old Point Comfort, the present-day Fort Monroe in Hampton,...
By New Journal and Guide Staff Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for her book “Beloved” died Monday August...
PORTSMOUTH Ken Wright is now an artist in residence at the D’Art Studio in Norfolk off Boush Street. In 1984, he was the chief illustrator for...
You can focus on the handful of Ku Klux Klan members who tried to intimidate a Catholic priest in 1926 or focus on the writer who...