BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Dr. Benjamin Chavis, president/CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), was celebrated as the father of the environmental justice movement at the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Wilmington Ten were a group of civil rights activists wrongfully convicted in 1971 for the firebombing of Mike’s Grocery Store and shooting...
By Uche J. Uwahemu Liberian presidential candidate attorney Tiawan Saye Gongloe is making a tour of the United States to gather support for his vision of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Some of your fellow PGA Tour members have traded their dreams of earned success for easy money – indeed, blood money – whether...
By Zack Haber Starting at noon on May 14, over 500 people rallied and marched in San Francisco’s Mission District to protest the killing of Palestinian...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Chavis and nine others, eight young Black males, who were high school students, and white female anti-poverty worker, were arrested on charges of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In April of this year, I led a delegation to Haiti, which met with residents of the Lasalin neighborhood of Haiti’s capital and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Chavis noted that mainstream media’s coverage of the trial lacked facts, and the racially and politically-charged atmosphere inside and around the Pennsylvania courthouse...
NASHVILLE PRIDE — The Tennessee Celebration of International Human Rights Day will take place in Nashville at the First Amendment Center on December 11 from 5-7...
[QZ.COM] The mythology surrounding albinos in parts of Africa is strong. In Malawi, it’s believed that their bones contain gold. In Tanzania, businesses and politicians turn...
(BBC) – A leading rights group has called for the release of at least 13 people, including a rapper and an academic, held in Angola for...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian military abuses have caused the deaths of some 8,000 civilians in the fight against Boko Haram extremists,...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — South Sudan government troops are setting villages on fire and abusing civilians in an ongoing military assault on...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Decades of conflict and discrimination have left people with disabilities in Somalia vulnerable to forced marriage, violence and...
IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ, Associated Press HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush...
BERLIN (AP) — Four human rights groups have released a tool that lets users check whether their computer has been infected with surveillance software. Amnesty...
(ABC News) – Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, the Sudanese woman facing a death sentence for marrying a Christian, has given birth, Amnesty International confirmed to ABC...
PAUL LOGOTHETIS, AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national team will travel to Equatorial Guinea for a friendly game, and the country’s football federation won’t...
A Predator unmanned aircraft prepares for takeoff. U.S. officials have portrayed drone strikes as both lawful and clinically precise, but two rights groups are disputing that...
[BBC News Africa] Hundreds of people have died in detention facilities in north-east Nigeria as the army tries to crush an Islamist militant rebellion there, according...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Amadou Scatred Janneh, one of two Gambians with dual American citizenship released from prison as a result...
