Jon Batiste's free Love Riot festival in New Orleans, sponsored by He Gets Us, featured Ledisi, Flavor Flav and other special ...

Batiste, who grew up in Kenner, has a history of hometown warm-up shows ahead of big events. Three nights before he headlined ...

After serving 12 of the past 16 years leading the Department of Agriculture, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has been named CEO of ...

February is Black History Month and offers ways for the community to reflect on the struggles, successes, and contributions ...

I Have a Dream” — on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. But his D.C. performance wasn’t the speech’s premiere.

Club members march past the historic Carver Theater, named for former slave and famed botanist and inventor George Washington Carver, during the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club "second line ...

By Dr. Harold A. Black [email protected] haroldblackphd.com. When I was young we observed Black History Week. In 1926 the eminent histor ...

Local organizations such as TRHT, the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Initiative partnered with the Black Belt Community Foundation alongside the Selma Center for Nonviolence organization ...

Iowa State University recognized George Washington Carver Day on Monday, holding a recognition program in the Memorial ...

The university is celebrating pioneer George Washington Carver with a day of recognition program Monday in the Great Hall.

February has been designated as Black History Month. The person that I remember most learning about, probably because we were a rural school, was George Washington Carver.