
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia As 2022 closed, Black Americans saw gains with historic candidates and timely legislation. President Joe Biden...

By New Journal and Guide Staff Norfolk, VA The newly installed Mary McLeod Bethune Statue in the National Statuary Hall State Collection stands 11 feet tall...

By Rosaland Tyler Associate Editor New Journal and Guide Sheer necessity pushed African Americans to organize the 1917 NAACP Silent Protest Parade in New York City,...

By Jaylen Scott Winter Intern New Journal and Guide PORTSMOUTH The Hampton Roads Community Health Center held a grand opening of their new building, the Barbara...

Thirty-two years after the videotape of the vicious beating of Rodney King by nightstick wielding police officers in Los Angeles, the incident involving Tyre Nichols has...

NORFOLK A group of more than 30 Hampton Roads-area pastors and ministers recently announced their support for the candidacy of Delegate Angelia Williams Graves in her...

By Wornie Reed, Ph.D Memphis reminds me of a sad part of my youth. As a teenager in Alabama, I studiously avoided police officers, because I...

By Jaylen Scott Winter Intern New Journal and Guide Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent African American journalist and activist. She played a big part in...

By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks resisted a bus driver’s order to give up her seat...

By Rosaland Tyler Associate Editor New Journal and Guide Del. Delores McQuinn, D-Richmond, recently introduced legislation that aims to mitigate some of the challenges that people...

CHESAPEAKE The New Chesapeake Men for Progress, Inc., will host its Annual Black History Month Program on Saturday February 18, 2023 at the Buffalow Family and...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) said that Shavon Arline-Bradley would be the first...

By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide Emery Lewis Fear, Jr., 97, who was an inspirational marching band director at I.C. Norcom, Manor...

By Rosaland Tyler Associate Editor New Journal and Guide Winston-Salem, Baltimore, Maryland and Philadelphia are among several local police departments that say they are actively recruiting...