Sherita Childress, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist, has been working in Las Vegas for nearly 20 years.
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The typically tranquil atmosphere around the Springs Preserve natural habitat was awash Saturday with live music and an abundance of smiling faces at the 15th annual Black History Month Festival.
A principal, a doctor, a small business owner met Tuesday and discussed how to work with police to build safer neighborhoods around the valley.
A local couple has created a Facebook group for the Black community that they found was lacking representation when they moved to Henderson.
Culinary Local 226 Vice President Leain Vashon has been part of the union for more than 40 years.
“I don’t look at the world in black and white,” said Dr. Fermin Leguen, who leads the Southern Nevada Health District.
The initiative of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation is to forge relationships between the Southern Nevada Black community and local law enforcement.
Community centers on the Historic Westside offer athletics, resources and a central location for neighbors to get to know each other.
Metropolitan Police Department officers picked up retired Detective Herman Moody, the first Black police officer in Las Vegas history, from his house and took him to the Clark County government center, where officials dedicated a proclamation in his honor.
Carlos Hank climbed the ranks at Metro from patrol officer to sergeant to lieutenant to captain, now heading the agency’s Internal Oversight and Constitutional Policing unit.
Local student Symone Moore is getting the future she has always dreamed of thanks to a scholarship.
The Mob Museum kicked off Black History Month with a panel discussion celebrating the state’s “Black legal trailblazers.”
This year’s celebration of Black History Month is as varied as Southern Nevada’s African American community.
The annual Taste and Sounds of Soul festival organized by Las Vegas Black Image Magazine is going virtual this year.
The Springs Preserve celebrates African-American contributions to Las Vegas history and culture with a virtual festival.
Las Vegas City Councilman Cedric Crear reflects on the development of the city’s Historic Westside district.
A Las Vegas mother has published a book to give little black girls and little black boys across the country the representation they need.
Martin Luther King Jr. should not be “someone who is unapproachable and who exists in this theoretical place,” says Mike Lang, a technology teacher at Dearing Elementary School.