Nurredin said her niece was a blessing to everyone she met. Sisters from her Cincinnati Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta ...

John Handley High School and Garland R. Quarles Elementary School in Winchester recently received RAMP designations from the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), according to a press release ...

With Virginia’s new school accountability model set to replace the current public school accreditation system this fall, the Winchester School Board took a look at Winchester Public Schools’ ...

Malaika Huey, 52, mother of Kamyia Fletcher, hands books out to children during a Kamyia’s Wish donation event at Fredrick Douglass Elementary School. Fletcher, who died in November, taught at ...

I remember back to my elementary school days. We didn’t study much in the way of Black history in the mid to late ’60s. I remember learning who Frederick Douglass was. We didn’t learned ...

Literacy InterActives, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Southside Virginia, is thrilled to announce the return of its Black History Month series for our community readers. The 2025 Black ...

Telling Our Stories: Black American History Celebration, 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 15. Chesapeake Public Libraries is hosting poet Sharran C. Taylor (aka Kween Yakini). The program will include original poetry ...

Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, a sharecropper and the son of formerly enslaved and illiterate Virginia parents, was a self-made man. He taught himself enough to start high school at the age of 20 and ...