Read full article: City of Roanoke, Friends of Washington Park celebrate the 102nd anniversary of Booker T. Washington Park Mayor Joe Cobb also made a proclamation declaring July 5, 2025 as ...

Juneteenth events at Booker T. Washington National Monument detail the life of the famous author and orator who was freed in Franklin County after being enslaved the first nine years of his life.

The intensity of postseason football was on full display as Booker T. Washington edged out Collinsville 25-20 in a hard-fought Class 5A playoff game at S.E. Williams Stadium.

Booker T. Washington had a busy schedule when he visited Riverside on March 22, 1914. ... Washington spoke in the Mission Inn’s ornate Music Room to a full audience.

Two Booker T. Washington High School students, full of life and hope, were gunned down just feet away from the place they should've felt safe last week. Family remembers boys shot outside Booker T ...

Read full article: 160 years since Booker T. Washington’s emancipation honored in Franklin County this weekend This weekend, a historic milestone is being honored in Franklin County. The Booker ...

Booker T. Washington, left, was taken to the top of Mount Rubidoux by Mission Inn owner Frank Miller, right, when the educator and former slave visited Riverside on March 22, 1914.