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 ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Khorana’s research at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin and later at MIT helped decipher the ...

Reginald Lewis was a role model for all Black Americans in business, especially entrepreneurs like himself, writes.

Members of Bus Riders of Roanoke Advocacy Group — or BRRAG, for short — shared Jumper’s story on Tuesday, in celebration of ...

In honor of Black History Month and his upcoming exhibit, the Palm Springs Art Museum will host a Modernism Week lecture on Howard Smith Feb. 17.