February is “Black History Month”, and people join together in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve their right to full independence in ...

Any true historian knows that if you want to research the life of someone who died several generations ago, you’d better be willing to dig. So when local historians Phyllis Bridges and Linda Willard ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

Bob Perkins’ six-decade career as a journalist and radio host was dedicated to informing, delighting and good music (what he ...

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Overdue fines are widely recognized by professional library organizations as a form of social inequity. The American Library ...

A flight attendant who was killed in the midair collision last week near the nation’s capital was set to be remembered for his devotion ...

In the late 1940s, when housing discrimination was common, what is now Cascade Valley Metro Park included a neighborhood ...

She served as the chair of the nonprofit that preserves the Original Thomas Chapel in Black Mountain, one of the earliest remaining African-American churches in the town, a site on the National ...

Through his nonprofit organization, the Alex Breanne Corporation, John Mills helped 50 people build their family tree that would have otherwise been lost.

His boyhood dream to be an adventurous pilot was fulfilled thanks to World War II. But, as a civilian, racial prejudice kept ...