By JAMIE STENGLE DALLAS (AP) — Snow and ice blanketed large swaths of the U.S. on Sunday, prompting canceled flights, making driving perilous and reaching into areas as
By DEE-ANN DURBIN Aunt Jemima is making her last batch of pancakes. Quaker Oats said Tuesday that its Aunt Jemima brand pancake mix and syrup will be renamed
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia “I was extremely shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of a major member of the Motown
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia On Feb. 6, during an uncharacteristically frigid night for a southern city like Wilmington, a bomb was set
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won
By LEANNE ITALIE Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff arrive in the Crypt of the US Capitol for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, Jan. 20,
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Retired African American General Lloyd Austin is now in charge of the U.S. Department of Defense. On Friday,
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed”
By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK, JONATHAN LEMIRE and ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time
Author Peter Cole, Professor of History, Western Illinois University If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood racial equality was
