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Olympic gymnast MyKayla Skinner reveals her disagreement with Simone Biles over past comments related to women’s sports on ‘The Will Cain Show.’ AccuWeather forecasters are expecting flooding rainfall ...
Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, ...
Across our local area, Juneteenth is celebrated with festivals, live music and art exhibitions that highlight both heritage ...
The home also houses the founders’ furniture for Adelphean (Alpha Delta Pi) and Philomathean (Phi Mu), the two oldest sororities ... and culture, of African Americans. The museum focuses on Macon’s ...
It was one of many stories shared to a joyous crowd at Sewickley United Methodist Church this month as part of a celebration of African American Sewickley ... He served at First Baptist Church ...
Born in Macon, Ga ... “First Lessons in Greek” with an Appendix in 1881 and subsequently “Questions on Latin Grammar,” both of which secured his status as the first African American ...
Her family canvassed their options for another school in Macon ... churches, Catholic schools and a hospital add to the bustle, along with the gleaming Tubman African American Museum. In a first ...
Founded in 1866 by freed people, the Needwood Baptist Church is one of the oldest African-American churches in the state. The nearby one-room school provided elementary schooling for the community ...
“When I first got here ... mentioned history of Macon’s mid-1800s slave markets as well as the story of the Cotton Avenue District, a historic hub for African American-owned businesses ...
MACON, Ga. (WGXA) -- A local library is honoring the first African-American reference librarian with a book collection dedication. "He encouraged us, we saw professionalism when we came, he helped us ...
Tuggle retired in 1996 as Middle Georgia Regional Library’s first African American head of reference. He died in 2014, but his contributions to preserve Macon’s Black history lives on in every ...