
Portsmouth held a swearing-in ceremony for Lavonda N. Graham-Williams, who will assume her role as Circuit Court judge in January,...

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump secured a $779.3 million wrongful death verdict for the family of Lewis Butler, marking one of the largest negligent-security awards in...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters received the National Council of Negro Women’s highest honor, the Uncommon Height Crystal Stair Award, recognizing her decades of unwavering leadership, civil rights...

H. Rap Brown, later known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a towering figure of the 1960s civil rights and Black Power movements, died at age 82 while...

A statue of civil rights pioneer Barbara Rose Johns was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol, representing Virginia and honoring her 1951 student protest that helped shape...

Suffolk’s S. Delois Mayes Scholarship Foundation will host its 12th Annual MLK Day of Service on January 19, 2026, uniting residents, leaders, and educators to honor...

A federal court has denied the government’s push to prematurely unseal decades-old FBI surveillance files tied to Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership...

First Baptist Church South Hill of Chesapeake gave a powerful $45,000 gift to Norfolk State University—$30,000 of which is earmarked to erase the graduation debts of...

Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, warned that hunger and unmet basic needs are blocking student learning, and criticized federal delays of SNAP benefits...

In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will receive only partial funding for its November distribution — leaving tens...