TIME magazine recently honored Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Did we miss something? Was Kanye West saying that Black people are still in slavery and are choosing such a state and no one told us...
The May 1, 2018 municipal elections are now history for Chesapeake, Franklin, Norfolk and Newport News. But one of the most vexing outcomes was the low...
The term “hook up” was not too popular when Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune launched the National Council of Negro Women in 1935. But as the nation...
For the first time in over half a century Norfolk residents have elected all of the members of its seven-member school board. ...
“Mr. Zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?” That was a question Sen. Dick Durbin...
For the first time since Norfolk shifted to the election of its school board four years ago, on May 1 the city will see the first slate of...
Hodges Manor Elementary School recently bestowed a community service award on former Portsmouth Mayor Kenny Wright, who said he plans to run for public office again.
“If someone had proposed that the Modern Civil Rights Movement start in Tidewater, it never would have gotten off the ground.”
Justin Fairfax made history last fall when he was elected Virginia’s second African-American Lt. Governor, a job that gains political importance when the General Assembly is in...