The newly sworn-in mayor of Helena, Montana settled in the state after fleeing civil war in Liberia. He defeated the four-term incumbent by fewer than 350 vo...

NBA Hall of Famer Adrian Dantley is a basketball legend. Now he serves his community in Silver Spring, Maryland as a crossing guard and youth basketball refe...

Did you know that women are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurs? The number of women-owned ventures has increased by 45 percent over the last decade...

EATON, Colo. -- In the shadow of the Colorado Rockies, we found a man with a mountainous dilemma: what to do with all the antique washing machines he collect...

Kenneth Chenault, the outgoing CEO at American Express, has joined the board of directors at Airbnb. The hospitality service company made the announcement on...

Almost 30 years ago, Walter Mosley introduced Detective Easy Rawlins to the world and now Mosley is debuting his latest smooth-talking private d***, Joe King...

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - For the last 28 years, Channel 4's Terry Bulger has been telling you stories that show off the extraordinary people and places around ...

Shariah Edwards graduated from Power Center Academy High School, a charter school in Memphis, Tennessee. Now, she's faced with a task many recent high school...

The first paragraph of Brittney Cooper’s Eloquent Rage lets us know she’s not playing with or scared of anyone: "This is a book by a grown-a** women written ...

10 Thoughts on Tell Them We Are Rising, the Documentary About the Story of HBCUs (written by: Panama Jackson, who is the Senior Editor of Very Smart Brothas....

In May 2016, NBC Nightly News featured this story about an inspiring #EverdayPerson named Alex Lewis. Lewis started an organization named Car Window Poetry....