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Carver wasn't just the "man who did something with peanuts." He was adept at teaching poor southern farmers of all skin tones how to turn well-worn soil into highly productive fields. Rosenwald schools across the South used his teachings, and northwest Louisiana became home to one of the nation's most extraordinary distributions of Rosenwald schools. He helped countless poor farmers in the United States begin and participate in farmers' unions. And Carver mentored a youn...

What can we take from the life of this genius? My take-away is: cultivate our innate gifts, follow your passion, be committed, stay single minded and focused, remain humble and appreciative of your successes. My family owes a deep gratitude to George Washington Carver. On my paternal side my ancestors owned land and were peanut farmers (along with corn, soybeans and other crops) in Southampton County Virginia from the late 1870’s to the present. Thank you Dr. Carver!

'The Gilded Age' star Denée Benton talks about the season 2 finale for Peggy Scott and her character’s controversial romance.

“The Gilded Age” continues to offer TV’s best tonal extremes, tempering its intense drama with a season-long plotline about an oversleeping footman trying to build an alarm clock.

Miss Turner’s diabolical soup scheme might’ve boiled over, but shouldn’t we all be rooting for the Russells’ social destruction?

American intellectual and former slave Booker T. Washington had a unique partnership with Teddy Roosevelt. The friendship between the two men would change America for the better.

Compilation of scholastic stunners who slayed and parlayed At Tuskegee University's 2023 Homecoming in Tuskegee, Alabama

Classes, fundraisers, lectures, library, health and other events in the Fort Wayne area.

Juneteenth is an important part of Americas history and progress towards equality. Learn more and celebrate the holiday with these Juneteenth quotes.

Ralph Ellison, in full Ralph Waldo Ellison, (born March 1, 1914, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.—died April 16, 1994, New York, New York), American writer who won eminence with his first novel (and the only one published during his lifetime), Invisible Man (1952). Ellison left Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1936 after three years’ study of music and moved to New York City. There he befriended Richard Wright, who encouraged Ellison to try his hand at writ...