Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw is a Quad Cities native from Rock Island, IL. She earned her bachelor’s of arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communication with a certificate in Critical Cultural Competence from ...

Mikhayla Ann De Las Heras appeared in Southport Magistrates Court on Tuesday charged with three counts of assaulting police and one each of driving with a suspended licence and failing to provide a ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Poetry has always been a big part of Mikhayla Robinson Smith’s life. She wrote her ...

Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw, Miss Iowa 2018, may have walked out empty-handed in the Atlantic City Miss America pageant, but she has not stopped being an active role model in Iowa. “The past few months have ...

Mikhayla Smith is ending her two-year term as the second-ever Poet Laureate of Athens on Jan. 1, 2026. Her work has been praised for activating the Poet Laureate title and expanding its meaning within ...

Hoxworth Blood Center serves the greater Cincinnati region and provides blood to those in need. This month, they are really pushing new donors to roll up a sleeve! Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw documented the ...

Mikhayla Robinson Smith has been writing for so long that she barely remembers getting started. As a 5-year-old in her home town of Augusta, Smith first put pen to paper as a means of coping with a ...

It certainly strains credulity to suggest any government meeting could be poetic. But that wasn’t the case as Athens-Clarke County’s mayor and commissioners were introduced at their Tuesday ...