It's Black History Month and the Up First newsletter wants to highlight local history makers. Do you know anyone who has made a difference and should be celebrated this month? If so, we want to hear.

As time inevitably passes, we must remember that speeches of this magnitude were not given in a vacuum—they were calls to ...

“The children of negro spirituals got to be the blues and then came jazz and R&B, and all of them used what was developed in the spiritual which was improvisation,” Jones said. The beats and melodies ...

Tom Horne said if his department was in charge of spending federal education dollars, he would use it to raise teacher pay.