Herbert Howard News Today

Alma Warren passed away in Lexington, Kentucky. This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories. Services by Pulaski Funeral Home.

By the 1950s and for decades after, Herbert Howards photos gave Wilmingtons Black community an opportunity to be seen.

For the latest episode of Cape Fear Unearthed, we talk about some of the important, notable and just plain cool photos in the sprawling collection.

May 25, 1866: The East Tennessee Union Flag reported, “Some thieves went to the residence of Dr. Murray in this county and stole his horses, but they were so hotly pressed and closely shot at that they abandoned the stock. This is the kind of a reception to give all thieves.” The East Tennessee Union Flag was a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way on the masthead of the newspaper. In some other parts of that paper, the town was spelled Jonesboro. May 25, 189...

Black Art Matters At the Whitney Museum, the enduring legacy of the Kamoinge photography collective — 14 distinctive talents finally in the spotlight. Ming Smith’s “America Seen Through Stars and Stripes,” New York City, circa 1976, in the show “Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.Credit...Ming Smith and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Jan. 13, 2021 It’s only fairly recently that the mainstream art world, which likes to ...