“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...
Civil rights, labor and faith leaders were in Memphis this week (April 2-4) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,...
Even as a young man, A. Philip Randolph understood that the economic wellbeing of workers and the political rights of African Americans were inextricably linked.
You may not remember that in 1968 McDonalds sold its first Big Mac for 49 cents, the first 911 emergency- service-phone call was dialed in Haleyville,...
Registered voters get excited about the presidential, governor’s and congressional elections, but there are other elections just as important such as school board positions.
Fifty years after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we still call forth the “dream” he spoke of in his famous “I Have A...