By Marian Wright-Edelman (President, Children’s Defense Fund) “In the shadow of the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the King Memorial, and the front yard of the...
Mr. William Garth, Sr. was the Chairman of the Chicago Citizen Newspaper Group Inc., Garthco, Inc. and Founder/Chairman of the QBG Foundation, as well as Chairman...
By William J. Ford (The Washington Informer, NNPA Member) When Carolyn Tillery walked around the Washington Monument on the National Mall on Saturday and stared at...
By D. Kevin McNeir (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The idea of erecting a museum that would highlight the contributions of African Americans first received public attention more...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In less than two weeks, visitors to the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture will get the opportunity...
[fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=RK8xHq6dfAo” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RK8xHq6dfAo/maxresdefault.jpg”] Watch the new trailer for #HiddenFigures, based on the incredible untold true story. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer & Janelle Monáe. In...
[DIVERSEEDUCATION.COM] If Dr. Bill Cosby’s greatest contribution to the Black community was his creation of The Cosby Show, then the spin-off to the popular 1980s television...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bank of America, Kaiser Permanente, Prudential Financial Inc., Target and Toyota have each provided $2 million in sponsorships to...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) Sponsorships and donations have been pouring into the new Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture...
[NYTIMES.COM] RIO DE JANEIRO — Simone Manuel managed to make history and break a record, all in less than a minute. Manuel became the first African-American...
1. In 1866, through an act of Congress, legislation was adopted to create six all African-American Army units. The units were identified as the 9th and...
By Victoria Jones (NNPA/DTU Fellow) California Attorney General and Howard University Alum Kamala Harris won the state’s Senate primary with 40 percent of the vote based...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) California Attorney General Kamala Harris is set to cruise into the United States Senate after a decisive run-off...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) When the National Museum of African American History and Culture opens in September, Lonnie Bunch, the museum’s...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In August 2013, Georgia Congressman and civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis teamed up with artist Nate Powell...
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...
[CHICAGO DEFENDER] In a shocking development, and one that probably angers The View’s vapid and air-headed co-host Raven-Symone, slave revolutionary Harriet Tubman, who freed up to...
By Todd Luck Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Winston-Salem Chronicle WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Carl Wesley Matthews, the leader of the local lunch counter...
[YAHOO] During February, the United States and Canada celebrate Black History Month. Officially adopted in 1976, this month of observance is a time to pay tribute...
Staffers from the Miami Times newspaper quiz people on what they know about Martin Luther King, Jr. [fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=uo0EIDPq4Rg” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uo0EIDPq4Rg/maxresdefault.jpg”]
By Vincent R. Crawford Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Arizona Informant “When I saw that this crew (led by referee Howard Horton Jr.)...
Raja Jorjani, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Suppose a client walked into my office and told me that police officers in his country...
(The Washington Post) – Most of the people who hold jobs behind the camera in Hollywood are white and male, and despite the recent unflattering coverage...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist August 17 will mark the 128th birthday of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the visionary Jamaican-born leader who built the Universal Negro...
Nellie Andreeva, DEADLINE (Deadline.com) — Emmett Till was only 14 when the black teen was brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Mississippi...
