Join WECT as we celebrate Black History Month by highlighting some of the people, places, and events that shaped black history here in southeastern NC and beyond.

CHESTERTOWN — Earlier this month, Washington College welcomed over 450 enthusiastic, service-minded Marylanders from across the state for the first All Corps event ... a unique day of events ...

Every year, the Virginia International Tattoo is a flashy pageant of patriotism. And this year’s event — honoring the 250th anniversaries of the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps and featuring ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

Video / NZ Herald / AFP Far North locals got to witness a vibrant, rejuvenating marine environment at a Maitai Bay Community Snorkelling Day this month. Around 210 participants and 31 volunteers ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson ordered the flags at the Capitol to fly at full staff for inauguration day, then return to ... and first lady Melania Trump to Marine One, renamed Nighthawk 46.

Among his favorites: “Semper Fidelis,” the march by John Philip Sousa, who led the Marine band in the 1880s. “It sounds a bit like the company line because it is, sort of. It is the march of the ...

It took a few updates, but Predator: Hunting Grounds has become a notable asymmetrical multiplayer game with a refreshing and cohesive take on the sci-fi universe. It's hardly controversial to say ...

Members of the Green River Area Development District’s (GRADD) Senior Connections AmeriCorps program will once again serve at St. Benedict’s Homeless Shelter on Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr.

South Shields Marine School will be hosting a careers day for people who are interested in working at sea. The oldest Marine School in the world is putting on the event on Saturday, January 25 ...

Well done, Mrs. Leftenant-Colon! The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation after World War II, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, passed away at 104, VPM reported.

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.