YOUNGSTOWN — If you’re interested in Christine Thomas’ jewelry and other merchandise, she would probably prefer you buy rather than stealthily photograph it. “A friend did it, so my cousin and I began, and she branched out, but we work together,” Thomas said, referring to her cousin, ...

February is Black History Month, and events and programs are being scheduled throughout the Mahoning Valley. • Thursday — Dr. Lindsey Stewart will discuss her book “The Conjuring of American Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic” at 2 p.m. The talk will be ...

Just over 100 years ago, a prosperous West Oakland family bought a home in Piedmont. The small East Bay enclave, carved out of the center of Oakland by a few hundred voters who didn’t want to be annexed by the East Bay’s expanding metropolis, had already garnered the nickname “city of ...

Staff report February is Black History Month, and events and programs are being scheduled throughout the Mahoning Valley. •Saturday — The African Marketplace will take place 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at McKay Auditorium, Beeghly Hall, Youngstown State University. The marketplace will feature ...

2026 has dawned as a momentous red-letter year for American history. As most know by now, the United States already has launched America250, its supersized patriotic bash to commemorate its 250th anniversary as a proud independent nation. What far fewer of us recognize, however, is that ...

Each February, the United States commemorates the impressive contributions of black individuals. Black History Month traces its origins to 1915, 50 years after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that same year, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and ...