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The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday on Monday shines a spotlight each January on Black American history and the continuing efforts to achieve racial equality.

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Down’s Hunter changed U.S. education Today corporal punishment is not a part of most children’s education thanks in part to Irishman Thomas Hunter,...

Othello Caleb Cross spent over 40 years serving the Pine Bluff community and its legal needs, even representing many Arkansas farmers in a landmark racial discrimination case against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The U.S. Navy was one of the last military branches to integrate Blacks into its service. By the beginning of World War II, the Army already had a Black general and had seen its first Black Army officer graduate from West Point Academy in 1877.

Two exhibits on display at SJSU, and across the City of San Jose shed more light on the life and times of African-Americans during and after slavery. This is in conjunction with the first national observance of Juneteenth.

“A good man is always learning,” is an old Latin Proverb. Sages and thinkers since the days of the first schools thousands of years ago have recognized the importance of

Dr. Vannette W. Johnson, the first University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff football coach to lead his team to a Southwestern Athletic Conference championship, died last Thursday. He was 91.

In the summer of 2020, Patrick Gulley suddenly found himself in the position of being responsible for his family's forestland in Nevada County when his father, Henry Gulley, died in an automobile accident at the age of 72.

In the summer of 2020, Patrick Gulley suddenly found himself in the position of being responsible for his familys forestland in Nevada County when his father, Henry Gulley, died in an automobile accident at the age of 72.