Juneteenth Jubilee for the Vineyard has been a curated event designed by Kahina Van Dyke, our Island real estate and program events impresario in Oak Bluffs.
Gratitude and Thanksgiving for the life of Margaret Lee Price Willams, longtime Oak Bluffs resident, as friends and colleagues said goodbye to her in a service at Union Chapel on June 11.
As spring leans toward summer Memorial Day reminds us to respect and honor those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we can enjoy our freedoms.
On April 1, Oak Bluffs resident L. Duane Jackson hosted a packed house as he cut the ribbon on his new 52 unit residential development in New Bedford.
A few weeks ago Black Enterprise Magazine hosted their 20th Women of Power Summit at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
As we transition from Black history month to women’s history month I am frequently reminded of the Fabulous Five from West Tisbury. Their determination to activate participatory democracy began on Nov. 22, 1963 when our own President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Eleanor Holmes Norton has been serving in the U.S. House of Representatives in Congress since 1991. She has served as the delegate representing the District of Columbia.
In the summer of 1962 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and family were hosted by Harlem icon Joe Overton at his historic cottage on Seaview avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Karen Holmes Ward of Oak Bluffs was recently honored as a Living Legend by the Museum of African American History of Boston at their annual gala held this year at 10 World Trade Center.
