Family, friends, and supporters celebrated Alex Haley’s 98th birthday over the weekend at his childhood home in Henning, Tennessee. In 1976 Haley introduced America to the...
With little more than a year remaining until the 2020 Presidential election, a new organization is focused on an often-overlooked segment of the voting population: Black...
It began with a group of them, student and faculty researchers working together to highlight a problem in local and state laws. In the end, the...
As a genealogist, K. I. Knight deals with hundreds of names, yet one name lingered in her mind. It was with her when she was driving,...
The true story of Brian Banks, an All-American high school football player who spent a decade behind bars wrongly convicted of rape and eventually exonerated, opened...
It was described as an area overrun with natural resources. Pine trees covered the north end while various plants and animals occupied the rest. Birds flocked...
The banner announcing the block party at 83rd and South Elizabeth Streets in Chicago stretched from one side of the clean, tree-lined Chicago street to the...
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Toni Morrison For almost half...
Five years ago this week a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown. The Ferguson teenager was unarmed with his hands raised. TheVillageCelebration’s Andre Mitchell reviews...
With its A-rated public schools and housing, low crime rate and a median home value 40 percent above the national average, Allen, Texas is neither rat...