Local schools used to look much different before the school integration process began in the 1950’s. Dr. Patrick Brown is an assistant professor of history at WVU Tech. He told 59News that the path to ...

Black History Month explained: Its origins, celebrations and myths Dr. Patrick Brown is an assistant professor of history at WVU Tech. He told 59News that the path to white and black school ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

WIELDING THE WRITTEN WORD: Professor Chakkalakal discusses her new book on the life and writings of author and activist ...

University of Mississippi football standout — songwriter subsequently — Jim Weatherly composed his masterpiece after his friend Bruce Majors’ girlfriend Farah Fawcett announced that she was “leaving ...

“Because the president is targeting clean energy in all 50 states, somewhat oddly, he’s presenting us with an opportunity to lead the nation,” Ferguson explained. “We’re not stepping bac ...

History Month (AAHM) release from BlackEconomoics.org. It was invited by the Jackson Advocate of Jackson (MedgarEversville), Mississippi. The Jackson Advocate is an 87-year-old Black newspaper known ...