BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — A year after its release, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy stands not only as a record of history but as...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Today is an all-day board meeting for the Smithsonian Regents. Advocates and lawyers are advocating for this quarterly meeting to save over a...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — You can pass laws that punish truth-tellers and silence teachers who dare speak the name of freedom. But you cannot silence color. You...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The hotel links stories from the Civil War to Civil Rights and will be reimagined as a gathering place in Selma, Alabama.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In 2021, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities, and implications of the...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Bill Cosby—long regarded as television’s most iconic father figure—shared his thoughts on the death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who portrayed Theo Huxtable...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — As part of the settlement, Harvard has agreed to fully relinquish the images to Lanier, who is advocating for their permanent display at...
The iconic bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once a focal point in the Oval Office during the Obama and Biden years, has been...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a March 31st article published by the North Carolina Black Alliance, the Smithsonian leader revisits history during an HBCU stop at Shaw...
Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — After significant public backlash, the U.S. National Park Service has now appeared to restore its original webpage on the history of the Underground...
A photograph of Harriet Tubman has been removed from a National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The museum's slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians, are the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dr. Chavis announced that the book will be distributed to schools and educational institutions across the country, ensuring that students have access to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — HBCUs are two hundred year old institutions that are one of the largest segments of this nation to create the Black middle class....
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Members of the Mayor Harold Washington Legacy Committee present a wreath at the former mayor’s gravesite at Oak Woods Cemetery (Photo Credit: Tacuma...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Woodlawn Cemetery was established after death records were implemented, allowing for records to be made on who resides in the cemetery. Many of...
We have launched a statewide task force in conjunction with the Florida General Baptist Convention, Inc., Reverend Dr. Carl Johnson, President, to demand that the governor...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — We have launched a statewide task force in conjunction with the Florida General Baptist Convention, Inc., Reverend Dr. Carl Johnson, President, to demand...
Hate Crimes Are Domestic Terrorism By Honorable Sandré R. Swanson The premeditated killings of three innocent, non-suspecting, African American citizens in Jacksonville, Fla., last Saturday was...
By Tanya Dennis Part 2 Rise East is a $100 million privately funded initiative that will rebuild Black neighborhoods in a 40×40 block area is East...
By Nina Sazevich The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco has recently been awarded one of 34 Museum Grants for African American History...
By Nina Sazevich The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco has recently been awarded one of 34 Museum Grants for African American History...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — When I was asked by then-Charleston Mayor Joe Riley 23 years ago to chair the steering committee to develop his vision of establishing...
By Brandon Patterson President Joe Biden joined civil rights leaders, congressmembers, and Black Americans from across the country in Selma, Alabama on Sunday to mark the...
