The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers to host spelling bees and send ...

Ahead of the 20th anniversary of Anthony Walker's murder, the ECHO was invited to spend an afternoon with the foundation's ...

Live updates from the finals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee including words, definitions and analysis.

Seven spellers who advanced from Colorado State Spelling Bee in Denver have won the national contest during its 100-year ...

At age 8, Ahilya met Malharrao Holkar during a military stopage near her village. He was impressed by her intelligence and ...

June 1 is the 75th anniversary of her “Declaration of Conscience” speech denouncing her colleague Senator Joseph McCarthy’s ...

THIRTY years before Guyana achieved independence from British colonial rule, Jamaican political activist, Marcus Garvey, issued a powerful call that still ...

Representing Prince William County for this historic event is George Hampton Middle School eighth-grader Vincent Chu, who ...

Some things have changed for the better in Minneapolis since Memorial Day 2020, when a police officer murdered George Floyd.

Venerable Walpola Rahula Thero’s 118th death anniversary fell on the 9th of May. On the 24th of May, a commemorative event is ...

By D. Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz teaches in Caribbean Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto This ...

Last week marked the 10th anniversary of the Miami Foundation’s annual “State of Black Philanthropy” event, which honors ...