NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Maintaining an accurate account of our history, and history in general, is essential for the present as well as for posterity, as it...
By Tamara Shiloh It was the spring of 1964. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were preparing to launch a campaign...
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media A series of community Listening Sessions are being held statewide to help the nine members of the California Task...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — This year, Southern Poverty Law Center’s March report, “The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021,” revealed that hate and anti-government extremism have gone...
By Edward Henderson, California Black Media A lawsuit filed by the California-Hawaii NAACP Conference on August 2 to remove an election ballot opposition statement to Proposition...
By Ben Jealous, president of People For the American Way Just when you thought far-right attacks on public education couldn’t get any more absurd, we hear...
By Tanya Dennis On June 6th, the Alameda County Grand Jury released a report regarding deficiencies of probate Court including recommendations to correct deficiencies. Probate advocates...
By Ben Jealous When Charles Diggs, Jr. won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city...
By Tamara Shiloh The minstrel shows of the early 19th century are believed by some to be the roots of Black theatre. However, they were written,...
By Richard Johnson The Formally Incarcerated Giving Back (FIGB) org. is launching a voter drive to protect and encourage democratic participation while seeking educational, economic as...
By Tanya Dennis Last week, the Oakland City Council approved $250,000 to assist the East Bay Association of Black Psychologists (EBABP) and Oakland Frontline Healers (OFH)...
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — A Georgia judge, Timothy Walmsley, handed down sentences in the conviction of the three men found guilty last year of being Ahmaud...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The U.S. has long failed to live up to its international human rights treaty obligations on eliminating racial discrimination, perhaps more so in...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I have enjoyed my time working at Kenly Police Department and had fully intended to remain employed with the town, but unfortunately, decisions...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “When talking about slavery, particularly the Transatlantic slave trade and its after-effects, there are certain institutions that directly benefitted and continue to reap...
By Ben Jealous George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer just over two years ago. His killing sparked a movement to end unjustified police killings...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The surveys measured aspects of relationship quality, including satisfaction, trust, and intimacy; the frequency and impact of experiencing 20 different daily experiences of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “If you know anybody Black, you’ve got to tell them that statistics and studies have proven that when people of color go before...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media A report released by the California Department of Justice (DOJ) last month revealed that hate crimes targeting Black people...
By Emil Guillermo If you were celebrating on the Fourth of July, you have to be troubled on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and all the rest...
By Ben Jealous Did you ever wonder whether elections really matter? Well, the Trump Supreme Court majority has answered that question for good. Or, more accurately, they...
LA FOCUS NEWS — In this new role, Nate Looney is a Black man who grew up in Los Angeles, has been tackling the delicate task...
By Glynda Carr The Supreme Court just dealt a devastating blow to reproductive rights. With its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, five Republican-appointed Justices on the...
By Tamara Shiloh Historically, professional hockey has held fast to its tradition of lacking diversity among its players. But no Black on the ice did not...
By Emil Guillermo This past week we saw the celebration of Juneteenth come alive with coincidence. On the second year since it became a federal holiday,...
