DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — Roy Oliver, the ex-Balch Springs police officer who fired the fatal shot killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, took the stand in his own...
THE AFRO — George Walker, a Black Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, pianist and educator, died Aug. 23 at the age of 96. According to NPR, the pioneering...
AFRO — Residents of Barry Farm Dwellings in Southeast, D.C. received a notice last week alarming them that “lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards” had been...
At the turn of the millennium we knew for a fact that the planet is warming and that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide accelerate warming. We...
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Hip-hop superstar Jay Z and his wife, Beyoncé, have announced a new scholarship program that will award 10 scholarships worth $100,000 each to “exceptional” high school...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Lamont Carey has taken his past and created a new future in literature, spoken word, motivational speaking and criminal justice reform.
“We wanted to organize and galvanize people because many of us who followed the trial or actually attended the trial, like I did, were very troubled...
The legendary crooner who’s new album, “Stand for Love,” dropped on Aug. 3, said he felt comfortable opening up to the Black Press about his award-winning...
“Our community partners beat back a voter suppression scheme that was being undertaken by officials in Randolph County. Remarkably, officials were trying to shutter 7 of...
