With incoming severe winter weather expected, many schools throughout southeastern Louisiana, as well as events planned for ...

The Oberlin House of the Lord Fellowship, 125 S. Pleasant St. in Oberlin, will celebrate Black History Month with its first “Still We Rise: Oberlin’s Black Women of Excellence” program at 11:30 ...

Gilkes, professor emeritus at Colby College, will be giving a lecture, “African American Women and Social Change: Stages of Liberation” at 3 p.m., Feb.

It is important to note that all schools are closed Monday for the Martin Luther King Day holiday. However, closures could extend to Tuesday and possibly Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO) — WGNO’s weather team is helping to get you and your family prepared for the incoming winter weather. Our meteorologists are predicting that by Sunday, Jan. 19, temperatures will ...

The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

Considered the first published Black poet, Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) learned to read and write from the Wheatleys, a prominent family in Boston who purchased her as a slave when she was a ...

MIAMI — Sam Moore, the towering tenor of the Sam & Dave soul music duo whose mid-1960s hits “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m ...

Six days of events in Greenville will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The second annual "Unity Weekend" kicked off on Wednesday, launching the first of a total six-day stretch ...

Submitted by the Bedford Minuteman Company The Bedford Minuteman Company kicked off 2025 by representing Bedford at the 249th ...