A rural metro community is celebrating on President's Day its connection to the nation's first president, George Washington.

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

RFK Jr. is one of the most prominent faces in the Kennedy family tree. But how is he related to the other famous names?

JFK, the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He was the second of nine children the couple shared.

Middletown, Connecticut has taken another step towards reckoning with it's slavery past. For the first time ever, the town ...

A student of history, art and French literature, Jackie became a photojournalist for the Washington Times Herald shortly after graduating from George Washington University in 1951 with a Bachelor ...

St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, Reading, is presenting a gala on Sunday, Feb. 23, to raise funds for community programs and ...

Bertha Hope was only three years old when she started playing Brahms’ “Lullaby” on the piano just from hearing it on the ...

For cultural scholar and author Imani Perry, a professor at Harvard University and the writer of Looking for Lorraine: The ...

Loudoun resident Donna Bohanon was on the Loudoun County Heritage Commission that successfully campaigned for the renaming of ...

Over the next four weeks, the D.C. area comes alive with events highlighting contributions made by the Black community, lionizing heroes like Frederick Douglass and William Still; shining a spotlight ...

And in the city itself, local brewer Robert Hare Jr. made what George Washington referred to as “the best ... Joshua Bernstein’s “The Complete Beer Course” illustrates the beer family tree in great ...