Calling CIAA commissioner Jacqie McWilliams-Parker a “pioneer” is a bit of an understatement. Her work in Charlotte never stops.

The Westlake, Ohio-based convenience-store chain, which is owned by Chicago-based, 1,540-store bp America, appointed Debi ...

Today’s News-Herald and the Parker Pioneer are published by River City Newspapers ... Initially the company ran the business operations for two competing daily newspapers. Today’s Daily News, owned by ...

Inductees include William C. Rhoden, columnist for ESPN’s Andscape, former New York Times sports columnist; Claire Smith, and Mike Wilbon, co-host of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption.

The Chicago tennis champion and basketball star was considered one of the best Black female athletes of her time, but her story has been overlooked in history, author Robert Pruter writes.

The Sheriff's Office responded to a cellular 911 hang-up from the area of 240th Street, Dassel Township. The deputy found ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Cee Major Stephen has been in the music business for decades. Now he teaches music and songwriting at Lehigh Valley Active ...

Jodi Swaja is the person behind the new prom, pageant and special occasion dress shop The Elegant Edge now open in the Hutchinson Mall. Swaja opened the business with help from Southwest ...

The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan formed a branch in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1920 and nearly took control of the state in 1922.

OCT. 14: At 3:50 p.m., a man living in the 900 block of Jorgenson Street Southeast reported someone had entered his unlocked vehicle ...

Given we had a Black coach win an NBA championship in 1968 (Bill Russell), an NCAA Tournament in 1984 (John Thompson), a World Series in 1992 (Cito Gaston), a women’s NCAA Tournament in 1999 ...