By Dr. Kevin Williams In this article, I’d like to introduce you to TaLana Hughes, a mother of three who is also the executive director of...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Binghamton University Historian Anne C. Bailey has studied slavery and the plight of African-Americans for quite some time....
TriceEdneyWire.com On Sunday, the New York Times unveiled “The 1619 Project,” a journalistic series in the Sunday magazine that seeks to tell the “unvarnished truth” about...
SMITHFIELD A Veteran’s Day Celebration will honor the women soldiers of World War II who were assigned to the all-Black 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. It...
By New Journal and Guide Staff Virginia Beach Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen announced on Wednesday, August 28 that he will step down from the job...
NORFOLK Hampton Roads’ local Icon and Philanthropist, Mrs. Mildred Graves, turned 100-years-old this week, Tuesday, August 27. The high-spirited Mildred Graves is the Co-Founder of Graves...
By New Journal and Guide Staff The 400th anniversary of the first documented arrival of Africans in (today’s) Virginia in August 1619 was commemorated August 23-25,...
By Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Ph.D. Professor of History, Norfolk State University Beginning in 1619 with the arrival of “20 and odd Negroes” aboard the English ship White...
By Derrick Johnson NAACP President and CEO As I ventured to the southern border near Laredo, Texas, I could not help but think about the tragic...
By Sean C. Bowers Is anyone “more American” than anyone else? 45 would have you believe so, from his incessant twitter-dumb “REAL FAKE NEWS” feed. If...
By Wornie Reed, Ph.D Four hundred years ago, Africans were brought to Jamestown. Of course, they were not the first Africans to arrive in what is...
By Rosaland Tyler Associate Editor New Journal and Guide Aiming to bring voter suppression sharply into focus, former Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Stacey Abrams recently launched Fair...
Local high school students from Booker T. Washington, Lake Taylor, and Norview displayed the flags representing countries of the Caribbean in the annual CaribFest parade down...
By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide Along with demanding the termination of Virginia Beach’s current City Manager Dave Hansen, the Interdenominational Minister’s Conference...
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