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Jo Koy will be at the Rochester Auditorium Theater this Saturday, March 30, 2019. Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets available at the Auditorium Theater Box Office or on Ticketmaster.

Eight-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi becomes the newest winner for the New York State chess championship for his age bracket. Tani, as he likes to be called, is a refugee from Nigeria and has been homeless for over a year. He and his family moved from northern Nigeria after fearing persecution of Christians in 2017, and have been […]

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Myspace has reported that more than 50 million songs from 14 million artists have been deleted from their servers. Any music uploaded to the site between the years 2003 and 2015 has been completely wiped out due to a server error. Last weekend, the social site that paved the way for all other popular social networks, […]

As we now celebrate Black History Month, here is a reflection of a hometown establishment that was celebratory of African American culture 365 days a year. In 1986, then married couple Gerald Chaka, a member of the black cultural nationalist US Organization & Terry Chaka, a Rochester native and visual artist, opened Rochester, New York’s first […]

Claudette Colvin was born on September 5, 1939, in Montgomery, Alabama. Months before Rosa Parks, in 1955, at the young at of 15 years old, Claudette Colvin stood up against segregation when a bus driver told her to give up her seat to a white passenger. In an interview Colvin said that she felt compelled […]

Nat Turner was born into slavery on October 2, 1800 in Southhampton County, Virginia. He is known for leading the only effective slave rebellion in U.S back in the summer of 1831. In early 1831, Nat Turner interpreted a solar eclipse as a sign from God that the time for a revolution was near.