The ground-breaking 1970 novel "The Bluest Eye,” by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, was deemed “extremely disturbing” by Virginia Beach at-large school board member...
Wilt Chamberlain, at over 7 feet tall, towered over the competition throughout his record-breaking career in the N.B.A. and beyond.
By his 1978 induction into...
When the Swedish Academy called to inform Author Abdulrazak Gurnah of his Nobel Prize win, the 73-year-old dismissed the caller as a prankster while...
With an estimated 281,550 new breast cancer cases this year alone, awareness is essential.
President Biden ushered in Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2021 with a...
The little-known Opelousas Massacre of 1868 represented a pivotal turning point in the Reconstruction-era South. A white supremacist group in Louisiana’s St. Landry Parish...
Multiple Grammy-Award winner Miles Davis revolutionized jazz many times throughout his lengthy career.
Today marks the 30th anniversary of his passing.
From his origins in “Be-Bop,”...
As coverage of Gabby Petito’s disappearance continues to flood news headlines, Indigenous missing persons cases remain unheard. At least 710 Indigenous people were recorded...
Novelist, poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant developed concepts influential to modern anti-colonial scholarship, and connected with students as a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY...
Florence “Flo-Jo” Griffith Joyner, in a one-legged blue bodysuit, bolted from the starting blocks and into the world record books at the 1988 Olympic...
