WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered ...

Tracy Brown, a Staten Island native, was a multifaceted storyteller, known for her work as an author, poet, playwright, and ...

Other new hits on the New York Times hardcover list for the week ended May 31: Stephen King, Nora Roberts, Steve Martin and ...

The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

With armed security guards patrolling the grounds, faith leaders of nine partnering churches in the Reston-Herndon area joined organizers from Martin ... rights of all Black people, of all people ...

Singer Michael Martin Murphey will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 27, at the Rialto Theater Center, 228 E. Fourth St., as part of the 50th anniversary of “Wildfire,” his 1975 hit song. On ...

The Cape Cod Times spoke with Jeffrey Voorhees, who played one of the "Jaws" shark victims 50 years ago. He has some fantastic stories to tell.

To stay home would have betrayed the entirety of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream, which is often deceitfully parsed, but included economic justice for all people, writes Michelle Flamer.

There’s a story of resilience rooted in the sand and soil of Amelia Island. Long before becoming a postcard destination, it ...

Most, when prodded, give a playful shrug at the curious phenomenon at Long Island's Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy ...

It’s a victory dance for the marginal, edgy, weirdo Black nerds.” Hartman grew up in Brooklyn, but her people on her mother ... for white guys from Long Island.” Returning to Wesleyan ...

June 19, 2025 • Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson reflects on this year's Juneteenth celebrations — and the push and pull of the Black experience in America.