There are plenty of Black women who embodied the spirit of the ’60s, but Marsha Hunt was another level of ferocity. A true renaissance woman, the model, activist, actress, singer and muse first made ...

A Marble Hill man was seriously injured in a crash after he swerved to miss a deer in Cape Girardeau County on Thursday night, January 8. A Holcomb man was seriously injured in a crash involving a ...

Johnson is credited with starting the Stonewall uprising in 1969. New Jersey officials approved a piece of land to build a monument dedicated to transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson in her hometown ...

Marsha P. Johnson was bold, fearless, kind and complicated. A key activist in Stonewall, the Black trans drag artist also founded STAR to care for trans people, and was an enigma that anybody who met ...

Transgender activist, filmmaker, and writer Tourmaline has accused filmmaker David France of stealing work from her to create The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson. The documentary, which debuted on ...

Film historian Alan K. Rode recalls his friendship with the actress who, beyond being one of the last great links to Hollywood's golden age, dedicated herself to activism and service, forged in part ...

A new biography, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson," tells the story of the Black transgender pioneer’s fight on the frontlines of history as a leader in the early LGBTQ rights ...

Marsha Norman has written 12 shows including Getting Out (Playwright), night Mother (Playwright), The Secret Garden (Bookwriter), The Red Shoes (Bookwriter), Love's Fire: Fresh Numbers by Seven ...

Marsha Beatrice Awbrey Weber Marsha Beatrice Awbrey Weber was born June 10, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas to Vernon and Veta Awbrey. She was the youngest of three children, with an older brother and sister ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...