OAKLAND, CA A former Chairwoman of the Black Panther Party will receive a $2.2 million settlement from the city of Oakland, Calif., to settle a 2015...
Over 4,000 of the 100,000 people diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) live in Virginia. It’s a disease which causes the body’s normally soft round-shaped red...
HAMPTON ROADS On Monday, July 16 and Tuesday, July 17, Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax convened three roundtables to hear from members of the community in Richmond...
An Academic Bridge-builder Champion of consensus and Committed to equality Hero Leader Visionary Shortly after the news of his death began spreading around Hampton Roads, apart...
NORFOLK Mrs. Corinne Jones, a notable personality in the Hampton Roads area, passed on July 15. The mother of three sons, Hilary, III, Darryl, and Circuit...
NORFOLK Three HBCU students participating in a national journalism program sponsored by General Motors’ Chevrolet Division are working at the New Journal and Guide before driving...
NORFOLK Norfolk State University is holding a series of forums July 16-17 to allow the various stackholding communities to give their input into the search for the...
Rodney Jordan (Ward 7) was succeeded as Chairman of the Norfolk City School Board by the panel’s Vice Chair, Dr. Noelle Gabriel, on the second day...
CHESAPEAKE Dr. William E. Ward, the first African American elected mayor in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia died July 10th in a city hospital, according to...
“We wish to plead our own cause.” In 1827, Samuel Cornish and John B. Russworm joined forces to create the nation’s first Black-owned newspaper, “Freedom’s Journal”...