Andre Vann News Today

HENDERSON — Templeton Blackburn delivered a presentation on the famous figures who visited Henderson via rail during the annual meeting of the Vance County Historical Society on Monday.

I had the honor today of witnessing the recognition of a civil rights landmark here in The-Town-That-Tobacco-Built.

In late June the school announced it was one of four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the country selected to receive a Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for HBCUs.

Durham, North Carolina is known for a lot of things — City of Medicine, tobacco warehouses, basketball — on both sides of the track.It's also known for 'big, bad' André Leon Talley — the famed Vogue magazine editor known in inner circles as the “pharaoh of fabulosity.”