February has been designated as Black History Month. The person that I remember most learning about, probably because we were a rural school, was George Washington Carver.

Saturday, Feb. 1 is George Washington Carver Day in Iowa , a well-deserved honor for the recipient of the Spingarn Medal, ...

As part of the TMJ4 and Scripps Howard Fund "If You Give a Child a Book" campaign, Adriana Mendez and Tom Durian joined kids ...

Black History Month begins February 1, and Austin has a few celebrations planned for Saturday. At 11 a.m. Saturday, the ...

When we learn about the Civil Rights movement in school, Phoenix is not often the setting. But, there is a rich Black history ...

Decades before it was Dr. King’s dream, a Four State native preached a message of love and understanding between people of different races. The George Washington Carver ...

Iowa State University students attended their first day of spring semester classes virtually Tuesday due to bitterly cold ...

The fifth day of the year is known as Carver Day, marking the death and honoring the legacy of George Washington Carver. To some, he’s just the guy who “invented” peanut butter. But more ...

Stepping down as agriculture secretary, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is stepping up as the first CEO of the World Food Prize ...

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor, sometimes known as the “Peanut Man”. In the early 1900s, he developed hundreds of products using peanuts ...

Back at the beginning of December, I read an article about how Chicago-based artist and architect Amanda Williams had revived the process George Washington Carver used to produce a blue pigment ...