Black Students Who Integrated Schools in Central Florida 50 Years Ago Share Their Stories

By Louis C. Ward (The Orlando Times, NNPA Member) Gessner Harris remembers White students hanging out of the windows at Eustis High School shouting racial slurs...

Black Caucus Members React to Tubman Replacing Jackson on the front of the $20 bill

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) On April 20, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that Harriet Tubman will be on the $20....

Blackonomics: Are Black People Becoming Obsolete?

By James Clingman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Coalition-building is the best way for Black people to make the kind of progress we need to make in...

President Obama, Public Leaders Mourn Prince

By Harry Colbert, Jr. (Insight News, NNPA Member) The reaction to the passing of Prince Rogers Nelson, more commonly simply known as Prince, has come from...

New Toyota HQ – Plano, TX with Scott Vazin

Harriet Tubman: Economic Freedom Fighter

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) When Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that Harriet Tubman would grace the new $20 bill, my heart sang hallelujah....

The Great Migration was a Triumph of the Black Press

By Erick Johnson (From The Chicago Crusader, NNPA Member) There were over six hundred Black families applying for 53 apartment units in just one day in...

Stop The Presses: Few endorsements Making Headlines in Black Newspapers

By Erick Johnson (From the Chicago Crusader, NNPA Member) Forget it Hillary. Sorry Bernie. When the time came for the Florida Courier to endorse either candidate,...

Spiritually Speaking: In the World’s Prison, You Are Free

By James Washington (The Dallas Weekly, NNPA Member) I remember a while back I heard Bishop T.D. Jakes of the Potters House preach a sermon that...

Have We Forgotten the Kidnapped School Girls in Nigeria?

By D. Kevin McNeir (From The Washington Informer, NNPA Member) It’s been two years, April 14th to be exact, since the world witnessed the abduction of...