Complete Guide to Booker T. Washington National Monument in Virginia, including things to do, history, nearby lodging an ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - It’s been 160 years since the emancipation of Booker T. Washington; a Franklin County native born into slavery, who became a monumental figure in African American ...

Tuskegee University, founded on July 4, 1881, commemorates its 144th anniversary today. The institution began as the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers, established through a collaboration ...

Noted poet, performer and civil rights voice Maya Angelou, who spent much of her formative years under her grandmother's care ...

Throughout his remarkable life, James M. "Butch" Warren has devoted countless hours to reclaiming and preserving a historical ...

The initial vision of Lewis Adams, famously spearheaded by Booker T. Washington, resulted in Washington leading the school within a church.

"Here is an intoxicating story of an extremely responsible ivory tower administrator, who has been taking painstaking ...

In all, the state approved nine markers. One of those calls attention to a 1924 law that was used to erase the existence of Native American tribes in the state, something that has since been ...

Based on Esi Edugyan's prizewinning novel, this 19th century-set Hulu miniseries centers on George Washington Black, a young ...

Washington Black” seemed destined for a screen adaptation. The 2018 novel by Canadian writer Esi Edugyan caught actor ...

It's a much more hopeful and optimistic ending than the novel's. There, Wash heading into the sandstorm reads as a mirror to Titch walking out into a snowstorm, suggesting that perhaps, like Titch, ...