Daywatch: America’s oldest Black town is in Illinois
Good morning, Chicago. Brooklyn, Illinois, is considered to be one of the country’s first Black settlements, the first majority-Black town in America to incorporate and the oldest such-town still in ...
Miss Mississippi comes home from Miss America pageant to finish her reign, serve state
Miss Alabama Abbie Stockard won the national Miss America title on Jan. 5. Miss Becky Williams is coming home to continue her ...
President Biden awards nation's highest civilian honor to Mississippi-native Fannie Lou Hamer
President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who is the 11th ...
Miss Texas — Ghanaian-American Annette Addo-Yobo — wins first runner up in the Miss America pageant
The aspiring lawyer was the first immigrant to ever win the Miss Texas title on her way to competing for the Miss America ...