By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide On November 2, 1920, for the first time in the state’s history, 75,000 Black...
By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide In 1953 Katherine Johnson was hired at the Area Computing Section of the National Advisory Committee...
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 Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com We’re near the end of Women’s History Month! Every woman should be proud of who we are, about the number...
By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide The 2019 theme of Women’s History Month is “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace and Nonviolence.” As...
By Rosaland Tyler Associate Editor New Journal and Guide Norfolk native Evelyn T. Butts highlights this year’s theme for Women’s History Month: Visionary Women; because she...
Black breast cancer survivors exist because they often act like Wilma Rudolph, the track star many called the fastest woman on earth in the 1960s. This...
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.
Hattie Carroll (1911-1963) was a 51-year-old restaurant server who was murdered by a white aristocrat, the 24-year-old William Devereux Zantzinger (1939-2009) who struck her with a...
[cs_content][cs_element_section _id=”1″][cs_element_row _id=”2″][cs_element_column _id=”3″][cs_text _order=”0″]Blacks routinely joined the military the year that Ronald Brinkley finished First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach in 1973 and enrolled...
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