With a brand-new federal holiday proposal, Americans could soon have an additional day off between Thanksgiving and Christmas ...

Since President Trump returned to the White House, he’s issued executive orders that target diversity, equity and inclusion ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Before long, McDonald’s took the idea and spread it around to other McDonald’s across the U.S. By the time McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc wrote his memoir Grinding It Out a decade later, the Shamrock ...

Local favorite Blue Willow is open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thanksgiving Day with a set $48 menu that includes herb-roasted turkey breast, sage stuffing, roasted Brussels sprouts, cranberry-apple relish ...

Another Thanksgiving Day is upon us. Can you believe it? I’m not sure if it’s because I’m getting older, or if the world has begun to spin faster, but it feels as though last ...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have brought forward a bill to add a federal holiday on December 1, honoring Rosa ...

Suffolk lawmakers voted 17-0 to confirm him as the 16th police commissioner in the department's 65-year history.

Often called the "Father of Black History," Virginia native and scholar Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in February of 1926.

Beginning Feb. 1, schools, museums and communities across the nation will mark the start of Black History Month –- a celebration of Black history, culture and education.

The International Day of Clean Energy on 26 January was declared by the General Assembly (resolution A/77/327) as a call to raise awareness and mobilize action for a just and inclusive transition ...

Every year on January 26, the nation celebrates the important event of Republic Day with lavish festivities. Republic Day commemorates the day in 1950 when the nation formally adopted its constitution ...