Black History

Cardinal take flight

Lamar University Class of ’12 and ’13 alumni Fred R. Vernon II started welding while still a student at Memorial High School in Port Arthur and, for a while, it looked like the industrial sector was where he would ultimately earn his bread and butter.

Commemorating "Crusading Lawyers" Johns and Willard

The Origins of Black History Month As a Harvard-trained historian, Carter G. Woodson, like W. E. B. Du Bois before him, believed that truth could not be denied and that reason would prevail over prejudice.

Black History Month: The Examiner honors Essie Bellfield

Essie Lagard Bellfield, 89, former Orange mayor, voting advocate, civic leader and community champion, died Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022.