William Redd News Today

Start the first sentence and i hope the people that know the words can go along. We get a chorus going here. We get the bass voices going on here and some higher tenor, Abraham Lincoln voices going and see what it sounds like. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Wow this is terrific. Thats only the first sentence. Okay. Who knows how the next sentence begins,...

Its a pleasure to be back here. I remember when i first made my brash entrance into the lincoln field, one of the first invitations i got was from this group. And i remember that what i had to say astonished many people, but they were polite. And steve carson made me squirm for my dinner by asking hard questions, but he, too, was a good he was very dubious about what i was saying. Im pleased to report that our friend, the late steve, told me not too long before he died, really, that he remembere...

Had to say astonished many people, but they were polite. And steve carson made me squirm for my dinner by asking hard questions. But he too was a good he was very dubious about what i was saying. Im pleased to report that our friend, the late steve, told me not too long before he died, really, that he remembered that session. And he was gracious enough to say that his doubts had been relieved. And he agreed with me what i was arguing about. And, of course, it was as greg says, only a few years a...

HUNTINGTON — Ten people were honored on Marshall University’s main campus in Huntington on Friday during the inaugural Black Alumni Hall of Fame ceremony in the Brad D. Smith Foundation

HUNTINGTON — Ten people were honored on Marshall University’s main campus in Huntington on Friday during the inaugural Black Alumni Hall of Fame ceremony in the Brad D. Smith Foundation

The first 10 African-American alumni inducted into the Black Alumni Hall of Fame are a testament to the mission of the organization, said the president of Marshall University’s Black Alumni...

HUNTINGTON — Marshall University will celebrate its 2023 homecoming with a variety of events next week in Huntington.

Michael Redd, born February 21, 1990 to proud mother Yvette Redd. That day the world became brighter and Michael was the light in his pap and gram's e...

Decades after Jackson P. Burley High School shut its doors, the school’s alumni continue to tell their stories to keep the memory of the once all-Black high school alive, and they want to work with students at the school, which became Jackson P. Burley Middle School in 1974, in that effort. “I wish the history of this school would be taught to students in a class, so the kids would understand what we went through, what our parents went through and show them the difference between what...