Local nonprofit Black BRAND is celebrating its 10 year anniversary by honoring three Black women with ties to Hampton Roads ...

The U.S. is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in 2020. On Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, making the amendment law and ensuring that ...

In South Carolina, $5.3 million from the state is going to an expansion of the museum at Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park on Hilton Head Island. Earlier this year, Florida lawmakers approved $1 ...

As part of Ujima’s “Healing the Healers” activation, 70+ people gathered on Inkwell Beach with the iconic Polar Bears to take part in a decades-old ritual. No photo can quite capture the true beauty ...

Rosa Parks: First Statue of African-American Female to Grace Capitol Feb. 27, 2013 -- intro: Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer, made history again today by becoming the first African American woman ...

An Orange, Virginia, man reportedly went viral for shouting racial slurs at an African-American woman in July, and is now facing charges in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, according to the county's ...

In the late 19 th century, African American beach communities began to emerge in places like Highland Beach, MD and Cape May, NJ. They provided havens for Black vacationers excluded from white resort ...

JOURNEY, 12 NEWS EMILY POFAHL WITH THE STORY. LAWMAKERS HERE AT THE CAPITOL FRIDAY PUSHING FOR A TASK FORCE FOCUSING IN ON MISSING AND MURDERED AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND GIRLS. IT’S THEIR THIRD TIME ...

New information is being learned about the woman viciously pummeled in a viral Cincinnati brawl on Saturday. The female victim – identified as Holly by a US senator from Ohio – has returned to her ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...

ST. LOUIS – Maurreusa Wallace keeps a collage of photographs of her daughter in plain view. She said Dornae Hayes, 15, was missing for two weeks before she was murdered in May of 2024. “They took my ...