The main branch of the Ocean County Library in Toms River is the site for a Black History Month celebration on Saturday, Feb. 15 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Held in partnership with the Toms River NAACP, ...

Brian Keys' Walter builds tension while Shanésia Davis' Lena radiates warmth in the classic South Side story by Lorraine ...

His parents encouraged him to read literature from Black writers like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright ... She was age 86 years old. Charles Ward Chappelle was an African-American aviator ...

In 1963, the March on Washington immediately became one of the most important moments in American Civil Rights history – a moment so big, everyone knew they were a part of history as it happened. But ...

With an audience of over 120 million people, Kendrick’s show broke viewership records. But at times it seemed designed to speak directly to me.

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

I am writing this column on Feb. 12, my 87th birthday. When I tell you that I am grateful to have reached this milestone in ...

Beat you, Patrick Mahomes. While football fans across the region will be tuning in Sunday to see if the Kansas City Chiefs ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

An exhibit “Harlem Renaissance and the Renaissance Man” will be on display at t History & Mineral Museum through April 30. It focuses on Joplin native Langston Hughes, an African American poet, ...

How rich is Michele Lamy? Discover the net worth of Rick Owens' wife, her success as an entrepreneur, creative influence, ...