Friday, the Tallahassee Urban League gave a shout-out to Black-owned businesses in light of Black History Month, Midtown & 3rd being one of them. I asked Tallahassee Urban League President, Curtis ...

Impacts from the expulsion are still visible today, but some of the ways people are working toward reconciliation including a growing scholarship and networking events.

Despite his long history serving the public, Errol Toulon, Jr.'s road to becoming the first Black sheriff on Long Island was not without challenges -- both professionally and personally.

According to the Columbus State University archives, by 1860, 37% of the city’s population was enslaved. Several slaves are buried in The Porterdale Cemetery located on the corner of 10th Ave. and ...

During Black History Month, News4JAX is celebrating local African American trailblazers who paved the way in politics and ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was ...

Another person involved in this week's deadly plane-helicopter crash was from Georgia. The U.S. Army has released the names of two of the three people on the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Augusta’s Riverfront is officially named after the city’s first Black mayor, Edward McIntyre. On Friday, at an unveiling on 8th Street, Augusta leaders showed off ...

WELL, IT WAS A CHAOTIC SCENE, BUT HE DID MAKE THE LIST. THE MAYOR CAME DOWN AT 5:00 ON THE DOT WITH THE FOLDER IN HAND, TO SUBMIT HIS PAPERWORK FOR CANDIDACY. BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS ...

Ryan O'Hara, a 2014 graduate of Parkview High School in Georgia, was the crew chief of the Black Hawk helicopter involved in a mid-air collision with an American Airlines jet near Reagan National ...

During the ceremony, Mayor Ken Welch, the city’s first Black mayor, acknowledged the policies and rhetoric coming out of the new administration. But he said St. Petersburg “continues to move ...

a Democrat who became Montgomery’s first Black mayor in 2019. “Our history deserves to be treated with the utmost respect and care, ensuring it unites rather than divides us as a community.” ...