By Coby W. Dillard If I told you there were blacks that participated in Virginia’s post-Reconstruction constitutional convention and served as state legislators during...
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis NNPA Columnist Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s recent statement, “I’m not concerned about the very poor … We have a safety...
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist During Black History Month, the focus is often on individuals. The founder of the month (once Negro History Week) was...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s plan to build a United States National Slavery Museum not far from the nation’s...
NORFOLK Sunday (Feb. 19) is NSU Day at Shiloh Baptist Church, beginning at 10:45 a.m. “This is always a high energy-packed day when students, faculty, and...
VIRGINIA BEACH Less than a week after his great voice suddenly went silent, Bishop Barnett Earl Thoroughgood was laid to rest last Friday (Feb. 10). Two...
Teaching Methodologies Pt.I Today we must teach our children the mystery of the creation of thought and being. We must teach them how to create right...
By Gladys McElmore Isabella Baumfree, an African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist, was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped in 1826....
By Elder Gerald DeForest Tyler This is the second and final part of “Game On” which I began writing last week in this newspaper. It...
SHARING THE LEGACY of TUSKEGEE AIRMEN Living in our midst, in Hampton Roads, is the proud sister of not one but two Tuskegee Airmen. Mrs. Olivia...