On Feb. 18, 1910, when Mary Bell Brown was born in Covington, airplanes were still called flying machines, the civil rights movement was decades away, and William Howard Taft was president of the U...
Comic book character on display “Drawing From the Soul: The Brotherman Art Experience” opens March 6 at the Auburn Avenue Research Library. The exhibit, which will be on display through June 30, features the work of author and ...
100 Black Women hosting membership open house Professional African-American women who care about health awareness, political action and economic development can find out how to become part of the DeKalb 100 Black Women at a March 16 open hous...
Historian to discuss Harlem intellectual’s life, times Independent historian and scholar Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry will discuss the life and times of African-American intellectual Hubert Harrison on March 4 at the Auburn Avenue Research Library. Harrison, ...
SWD Orchestra to be in concert at Ray of Hope Fans of Michael Jackson and Richard Smallwood will find plenty of good music at the Southwest DeKalb High School Orchestra’s March 7 concert at Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur. During the ...
Celebrated entertainer Josephine Baker, who started life poor in St. Louis on June 2, 1906, and became the toast of Paris in the 1920s, is the focus of “La Baker: The Art and Life of an Icon” at th...
Members of DeKalb 100 Black Men Leadership Academy finally get to show off their knowledge of black history in the African-American History scholastic contest at Macy’s at Stonecrest on Feb. 27. T...
Attorneys Mawuli Davis and Akil K. Secret will pick up Malcolm X Self-Determination awards at the 19th Annual Malcolm X Commemorative Banquet on Feb. 27 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Marietta. Davi...
Event planner Brenda Jackson can add the Hosea Williams Award for Community Activism to her resume. Jackson, owner of Brenda Jackson & Asociates, was awarded the 2010 Hosea Williams Award by Georg...
Fans of the late Princess Diana can see the wedding gown and 25-foot train she worn to wed Prince Charles of Wales on July 29, 1981 at the Atlanta Civic Center through June 13. Diana: A Celebratio...