Our past is always present to instruct or haunt our current times and the future, and one of the better examples is American slavery. Continued institutional...
HAMPTON The City of Hampton and Project 1619 Inc. will be commemorating the first landing of enslaved Africans in English North America August 18-19, 2017. This...
In 1957, about 400 white protestors screamed and yelled at 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford as she attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. You’ve...
Civil strife in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, August 12 around the pending removal of General Robert E. Lee’s statue, has added to the debate about Lee....
Clenise Platt enjoys public service to the point that she has traveled to England and to Nairobi to help others. But before Platt traveled to Nairobi...
YORK, VA. York County officials recently voted to rename a community building so that will honor the Rev. Dr. Martin L. King Jr. The building is...
The Virginia Board of Education is in the final stages of approving a new consolidated plan for the state’s students under the Every Student Succeeds Act...
DALLAS Alyson Rae Lawson, 28, is opening her own 7-11 store, according to news reports. The 2010 graduate of Hampton University in Virginia was chosen as...
Many of us will travel to the four corners of the world to plant seeds which bear the fruits of family, fame, fortune or failure. But...
RICHMOND In an effort to generate interest among voters for the November 7 General Election, Rev. Jesse Jackson was in Richmond (July 30) at Trinity Baptist Church...