Black History Month

Celebrating Our People: Week 5

Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 5:16 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

News4 is celebrating the Wiregrass’s most influential African Americans as part of Black History Month.

Black History Month

Celebrating Our People: Week 4

Updated: Feb. 24, 2023 at 3:11 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

News4 is celebrating the Wiregrass’s most influential African Americans as part of Black History Month.

Black History Month

Celebrating Our People: Week 3

Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 2:01 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

News4 is celebrating the Wiregrass’s most influential African Americans as part of Black History Month.

Black History Month

Celebrating Our People: Week 2

Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 3:22 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

News4 is celebrating the Wiregrass’s most influential African Americans as part of Black History Month.

Black History Month

Harrand Creek Elementary School students presented their first Black History program.

Harrand Creek Elementary presents first Black History program

Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 10:18 PM CST

By Sydney Wallace

Jason Hadden, principal of Harrand Creek, says events like this stress the importance of cultural diversity.

Black History Month

Celebrating Our People: Week 5

Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 5:16 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

News4 is celebrating the Wiregrass’s most influential African Americans as part of Black History Month.

Black History Month

Celebrating Our People: Week 4

Updated: Feb. 24, 2023 at 3:11 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

News4 is celebrating the Wiregrass’s most influential African Americans as part of Black History Month.

Ashford Elementary students celebrate Black History Month with special program

Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 5:03 PM CST

By Will Polston

While Black History Month is coming to an end, the celebration at Ashford Elementary is just getting started.

Black History Month

Celebrating Our People: Week 3

Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 2:01 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

News4 is celebrating the Wiregrass’s most influential African Americans as part of Black History Month.

Black History Month

Celebrating Our People: Week 2

Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 3:22 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

News4 is celebrating the Wiregrass’s most influential African Americans as part of Black History Month.

Black History Month

Celebrating Our People: Week 1

Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 2:40 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

News4 is celebrating the Wiregrass’s most influential African Americans as part of Black History Month.

Black History Month

Miss Alabama State University gave words of encouragement and motivation to the students.

Slingluff Elementary School hosts Black History Month parade and tea

Updated: Feb. 25, 2022 at 6:30 PM CST

By Jayla Johnson

Miss Alabama State University gave words of encouragement and motivation to the students.

Black History Month

The Camp Gordon Johnston Museum is searching for living relatives of a newly revealed roster of...

Camp Gordon Johnston Museum searching for living relatives of Black soldiers who trained along the Forgotten Coast in WWII

Updated: Feb. 25, 2022 at 1:44 PM CST

By Jacob Murphey

The Camp Gordon Johnston Museum is searching for living relatives of a newly revealed roster of Black soldiers who trained in Carrabelle and were on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.

News

Wiregrass student wrote a book to encourage others

Updated: Feb. 18, 2022 at 6:31 PM CST

By Jayla Johnson

An 8-year-old girl from Early County is working to encourage other people like her through her love for writing.

Georgia

Feb. 23 now known as Ahmaud Arbery Day in Georgia

Updated: Feb. 17, 2022 at 10:02 AM CST

By Joyce Lupiani

A new resolution has designated Feb. 23 Ahmaud Arbery Day in Georgia.

Black History Month

Delia Reynolds started nursing school at George C. Wallace State Community College in 1970....

A changemaker for healthcare in the Wiregrass shares her story

Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 5:27 PM CST

By Jayla Johnson

50 years ago, one Wiregrass woman became one of the first two Black graduates from Wallace College's nursing program.

Black History Month

Two of Janet Elder's ancestors, Austin Spencer (left) and Madelyn Spencer (right). Elder told...

Preserving the past: Long lost cousins try to preserve abandoned slave cemetery in South Georgia

Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 10:21 AM CST

By Katie Kaplan

A network of cousins with roots in South Georgia is working to prevent old slave cemetery sites from being erased by wilderness or urbanization.

Black History Month

Teacher portrays prominent African American figures through wardrobe

Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 5:48 PM CST

By Meredith Blair

She says dressing up grabs students’ attention, making them want to learn more about black history.

Black History Month

Daughter of Autherine Lucy Foster responds to building name change

Family says UA renaming the education building after Autherine Lucy Foster is an honor

Updated: Feb. 11, 2022 at 10:52 PM CST

By Lauren Jackson

The University of Alabama is re-naming the education building to honor the school’s first ever Black student, Autherine Lucy Foster.

Black History Month

Fourth-grade teacher turned photographer celebrates Black History Month

Updated: Feb. 11, 2022 at 7:23 PM CST

By Nathalie Moreau

A fourth-grade teacher’s work has been shared all around the country including Southwest Georgia.

Black History Month

Mayor declares February Black History Month in Enterprise

Updated: Feb. 11, 2022 at 6:03 PM CST

By WTVY Staff

In conjunction with the National Black History Month celebration, Mayor William E. Cooper has proclaimed February as Black History Month in Enterprise as well.

Black History Month

Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst. (Source: File Photo/Kryst family)

Recent suicides show need for mental health care in Black community

Updated: Feb. 9, 2022 at 9:10 AM CST

By Jasmine Williams

Their deaths have shown a tragic trend in the African American community, one that’s become worst since the pandemic.

Black History Month

Enterprise Mayor William E. Cooper has spent his entire life breaking down barriers in south...

Breaking barriers in the City of Progress

Updated: Feb. 8, 2022 at 6:01 PM CST

By Nick Brooks

Living through the heat of the Civil Rights Era, Enterprise Mayor William E. Cooper continues to break barriers.

Black History Month

Breaking barriers sit down with Mayor William E. Cooper

Updated: Feb. 8, 2022 at 5:50 PM CST

By Nick Brooks

Mayor Cooper talks about his life through the Civil Rights era and his journey as a public servant in the city of Enterprise.

News

Oldest church in Dothan appoints first female pastor

Updated: Feb. 7, 2022 at 11:30 AM CST

By Jayla Johnson

Cherry Street African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded as the first church in Dothan in 1877 and just appointed their first female pastor.

Black History Month

The Dothan Houston County Library is displaying the Long March exhibit featuring political...

Library offers a walk through time for Black History Month

Updated: Feb. 2, 2022 at 7:13 PM CST

By Jayla Johnson

The library says the exhibit tries to take the critical moments from that time period and describe them in a subtle way.

Black History Month

Looking Back on the legacy of Carver High School

Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 4:08 PM CST

By Meredith Blair

Two Dothan natives look back at the legacy of Carver High School, Dothan's last segregated school.

Education

Auburn Univ. waiving graduate application fees for students at 8 Ala. HBCUs

Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 2:46 PM CST

By Leonard Hall

Officials say this waiver program is one of several efforts the university is undertaking to strengthen its academic partnership with HBCUs.

Entertainment

Emmett Lewis appears in the documentary "Descendant" by Margaret Brown, an official selection...

Netflix picks up Clotilda documentary after film wins prize at Sundance Film Festival

Updated: Jan. 31, 2022 at 4:34 PM CST

By WALA Staff

Netflix acquired the distribution rights to a documentary about the Clotilda after the film won a prize Sundance Film Festival.