By Tamara Shiloh The year was 1619. A Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, made its way across the Atlantic Ocean filled with human cargo:...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The original March on Washington, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement, drew approximately 250,000 participants in 1963. Its influence paved the way...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In a one-on-one interview with the Black Press of America, Kennedy spoke about his relentless focus on combating environmental racism, ending qualified immunity...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The truth is, crime is out of control in this country, especially in too many of our cities. While many choose to turn...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Last year President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law — legislation that had previously been killed more than 200...
NNPA NEWSIRE — “Education should be the space where you can learn about everything and anything that you want. There should be no limits to the...
The long and humiliating path to ignominy for Donald Trump continued when a jury in New York found the twice impeached and presently criminally indicted former...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “You’re the scientists, the doctors, the advocates who will bring -- do big things like ending cancer as we know it and even...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Congressman Raul Ruiz (D-CA-25) last week introduced bicameral legislation to create the “César...
By Tanu Henry California Black Media Report: Black Students Among Students with Highest Absenteeism Rates The Public Policy Institute of California is reporting that absenteeism is...
By Carla Thomas FAME, the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oakland, held its first service at a temporary location, Temple Beth Abraham on MacArthur Blvd,...
By Dr. Phillip Gardiner It’s hard to believe that with the amount of damage that the tobacco industry has inflicted on the Black community, that there...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Viola Fletcher and her brother Hughes Van Ellis's acquisition of Ghanaian citizenship is a significant milestone in their long and remarkable lives. As...
‘Centuries of devastation and destruction of Black lives, Black bodies, and Black communities should be met with centuries of restoration’ By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — I must admit that ghosts and spirits are still within my purview. From time to time, I “conversate,” kick it and confer with...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media Last week, Malia M. Cohen was sworn in as the first Black woman — and first African American —...
By Tamara Shiloh In 1965, a select group of Black students participated in a summer school program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and held at Harvard...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Facing unrelenting criticism because of high gas prices, inflation, and his low-approval rating, Biden has built a track record that has gone almost...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A growing number of Americans reportedly believe that expanding the court and ridding elections of the Electoral College are keys to preserving democracy...
THE ATLANTA VOICE — Speakers at the conference included Dietra Trent, executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs; Byna Elliott, Head of Advancing Black...
“The National Newspaper Publishers Association’s Senior National Correspondent, Stacy Brown, has once again enabled our national trade association representing the Black Press of America, to make...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Our experiences inform us that the implementation of a menthol ban will inevitably and undoubtedly create an increased number of stops, frisks, and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The “soft on crime” strategy wasn’t a new way of weakening the power of Black public officials, but what was new was the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The tour’s first stop was the now dilapidated, overgrown-with-vines Bryant’s Grocery, on Money Road, in Greenwood, Miss., where 14-year-old Emmett Till of Chicago...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On Friday, February 25, President Joe Biden made Judge Jackson his choice to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement in January....
