The rain, wind and waves that threatened to cancel the broad array of Juneteenth weekend programs conjured up the innovation, determination, ingenuity and sacrifices that our ancestors deployed against almost intolerable living conditions in slavery.

Annette Gordon-Reed has written a wonderful book titled On Juneteenth.

May is the month of commencements where students finish one chapter and begin a new chapter in their lives.

This past weekend, the Vineyard was hopping with music and stage drama created by Oak Bluffs residents.

In 1963, three women from West Tisbury were moved to establish the Martha's Vineyard chapter of the NAACP.

The Green Book was published from 1936 to 1967 as a guide during segregation to assist African Americans in identifying businesses that would accept them as customers when they traveled around the country.

Marion Wright Edelman famously said, "Service is the rent we pay for being."

Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King were honored on Jan. 13 with the unveiling of the much talked-about Embrace sculpture on the Boston Common.

For nearly a decade, Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts 3rd graced the pulpit at Union Chapel with his own inimitable style of preaching.

Vineyard and Roxbury legacy families were on full display at the wedding of Carolyn Allston and Jethro Trenteetu at the Old Whaling Church last Saturday.