My train ride from Charleston, West Virginia, to the Deep South to Grambling was not a calm one. During this era of the 1950s, I recall feeling it was safer living north of the Mason/Dixon Line. Thelma Smith Williams After riding all day Oct. 1, 1956, the train was slowing […]

People in the United States — well most of us, regardless of race or socio-economic status — have no idea who our presidents were. Most know George Washington, then skip to pick up Abraham Lincoln, and some have a little knowledge about others, like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Herbert […]

ldquo;Hello, welcome to Highlights.” These were the words I used to introduce myself to the Grambling family every week from 1973 to 2009 on a radio show of that name I hosted on KGRM radio. That was a period that helped me to better know the strong historical connection between […]