journal-news logo
Log In
  • ePaper
  • Sign up for Newslettters
  • Subscriber Benefits
  • Digital Help Center
  • News
  • Elections
  • Best of Butler County
  • Things to Do
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Obituaries
  • Legal Notices
  • ePaper
  • Quick Links
    • ePaper
    • Newsletters
    • Subscriber Benefits
    • Digital Help Center
  • News
    • Business
    • Elections
    • Nation & World
    • Ideas & Voices
    • Ohio
  • Local
    • Crime
    • Hamilton
    • West Chester & Liberty Twp
    • Oxford
    • Warren County
    • Middletown
    • Fairfield
    • Butler County
    • Weather
    • Traffic
  • Life
    • In Your Prime
    • Celebrations
    • Best of Butler County
    • Health
    • Puzzles & Games
    • Latest Videos
    • Latest Photos
  • HomesPlus
  • Sports
    • OSU Buckeyes
    • Cincinnati Reds
    • Cincinnati Bengals
    • Cleveland Browns
    • High Schools
    • Miami RedHawks
    • Latest Sports Scores
  • Obituaries
  • Legal Notices
  • Newspaper Archives
  • Digital Help Center
journal-news logo in background
  • Newsletters
    • News
      • ePaper
      • Local
      • Weather
      • Ohio Lottery
      • Sign Up for Newsletters
      • Newspaper Archives
    • Customer Service
      • Contact the Journal-News
      • Our Products
      • Feedback
      • FAQs
      • Digital Help Center
    • Marketplace
      • Classifieds
      • Jobs
      • Cars
      • HomesPlus
      • Advertise
      • Legal Notices
    Follow Us
    © 2025 Journal-News. All Rights Reserved.
    By using this website, you accept the terms of our
    Visitor Agreement, Privacy Policy, CCPA, and understand your options regarding Ad Choices.
    Learn about Careers at Cox Enterprises.

    Black History

    Author to speak at Miami Hamilton on Black life in Appalachian coal towns
    Miami University Regionals Appalachian Studies presents award-winning historian William H. “Bill” Turner at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in the Harry T. Wilks Conference Center. Turner’s work mines a wealth of previously untold stories to delve into the rich tapestry of Black Appalachia. CONTRIBUTED
    Placeholder Image

    Set in the year 2119: Cincinnati Opera to showcase Black experience through Afrofuturism
    Writer, performance poet, oral historian, and activist Tifara Brown is the librettist of "Lalovavi," which will debut at the Cincinnati Opera in June 2025. CONTRIBUTED
    Placeholder Image

    Credit: CONTRIBUTED

    HISTORY COLUMN: Black leaders who made an impact in Hamilton
    Bob Harris and Katherine Rumph are two black leaders in Hamilton's history who made an impact in the community. FILE
    Placeholder Image

    Hamilton grad, Middletown native are part of Miami’s Black History Month celebration
    Middletown native Stephen Hightower, president and CEO of Hightowers Petroleum Co., will reflect on leveraging life’s opportunities to grow in business and life at noon Feb. 29 in the Miriam G. Knoll Community Center, Miami University Middletown. CONTRIBUTED
    Placeholder Image

    Fairfield students promote Black History Month education through artwork
    Students at a Fairfield school wanted to make a strong visual statement in their support of the importance of Black History month and their work now shows throughout their school. Fairfield Creekside Middle School students, led by the school’s Student Diversity Alliance, have decorated the school’s main lobby, halls and classroom spaces with a wide variety of Black History month and diversity appreciation-themed art created by themselves and classmates. (Provided Photo\Journal-News)
    Placeholder Image

    Local youth shaping future of Black history are ‘actively engaged’
    Booker T. Washington Community Center Director Ebony Brock said she's "very optimistic" about the future of Black history. Pictured is Brock in the lobby of the BTW Center on South Front Street on Feb. 8, 2023. MICHAEL D. PITMAN/STAFF
    Placeholder Image

    Hamilton Council honors Black community members making a difference
    Pictured in this screen capture from TVHamilton, are Kierra Wilson (center left) and Royal Lewis (center right), as they read a proclamation proclaiming February 2023 as Black History Month in the city of Hamilton. To the right of Royal is Booker T Washington Center Director Ebony Brock and Vice Mayor Michael Right. To the left of Kierra is Mayor Pat Moeller. PROVIDED BY TVHamilton
    Placeholder Image

    Local Black History Month events set throughout region
    The City of Oxford has a self-guided Black History tour guide available to take people around the town and on the Miami University campus. CONTRIBUTED
    Placeholder Image

    Local NAACP president: ‘Our work is never done’
    Middletown NAACP President Celeste Didlick-Davis spoke two years during a Monroe Board of Education meeting. She was concerned by the actions of two white students who reenacted the murder of George Floyd in a social media video. She told the board “we are concerned” beyond the single video incident and also “about some other implicit bias and systemic racism (and) incidents which have been brought to our attention over several years.” NICK GRAHAM / STAFF
    Placeholder Image

    Credit: Nick Graham

    McCrabb: Carter says moving from Troy to Middletown ‘changed my life’
    Butch Carter, a 1976 Middletown High School graduate, is the only basketball player in Ohio to be named Player of the Year and Coach of the Year. FILE PHOTO
    Placeholder Image

    Credit: Gary Stelzer/Middletown Journal