NAACP Report Shows TV Industry “Seriously Short” in Achieving Diversity
BALTIMORE (NNPA) - Threatening political action if the situation doesn’t improve, the nation's largest civil rights organization has blasted the television industry for falling “seriously short” in achieving diversity by not ...
First Black Daily Newspaper Founded
Thirty-seven years after the first Black newspaper in America was founded in New York City (Freedom’s Journal, 1827) the Black press reached another milestone with the launching of the New Orleans Tribune, destined to become the ...
Eartha Kitt: Truth to Power
There must be some divine order to the fact that Eartha Kitt died on Christmas Day, since many of us associate Christmas both with the Christ child’s birth and with those ...
34 Babies Dead in Teething Syrup Tragedy
(GIN) – A locally-made teething syrup has taken the lives of 34 infants, according to local reports from the Nigerian city of Zaria.
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