A Jonesboro school built during segregation for Black students to have a quality education will now become a museum and community center.

President Donald Trump pledged “to promote excellence and innovation” at HBCUs in an April executive order, as he did in his first term. But soon after issuing his executive order, the White House ...

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.

Booker T. Washington was known as one of the great African American reformers of the late 19th century. He founded the renowned Tuskegee Institute meant to help Black people freed from slavery ...

A house stuck in time, Booker T. Washington's Fort Salonga summer home is covered in white shingles speckled with gray patches. Silvering wood boards with a wavy grain conceal the windows.

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Booker T. Washington was an American educator, author and also the founder of Tuskegee University in 1881, an institution for higher education for black students. “Learning something new, I love it.

Booker T. Washington visited the school and gave a speech there in 1915. ... The students helped with the construction, just as students as Tuskegee did in the school’s early days.