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...
By NJG Staff Portsmouth The Venue 757 In Portsmouth was the site for a Juneteenth.Love family observance on Saturday June 15. The celebration in the 18,000-square-foot...
By Rita Charleston We know him and love him as the Godfather of Funk. But George Clinton is so much more. After singing doo-wop on street...
NORFOLK Three community service awards and five scholarships were recently awarded to recipients at the 2019 Spring Hat Jazz Brunch, sponsored by The Norfolk Pearls Foundation,...
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into a bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and gunned down...