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...
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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...
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...
Pia Catton, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK (The Wall Street Journal) — Promotions usually mean higher pay, maybe a fancy title. But forMisty Copeland,...
By Matthew Ridgely Special to the NNPA from The South Florida Times MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (NNPA) — Miami attorney Jason M. Murray becomes the...
William Grimes, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Dolores Spikes, who became the first woman to head a university system in the United...
Frank Bruni, THE NEW YORK TIMES PHILADELPHIA (The New York Times) — Last summer, a 13-year-old named Mo’ne Davis landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a...
David Sharp, ASSOCIATED PRESS FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — A former teacher who travels the country to document the final resting places of poets is looking...
Sebastien Malo, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — An African-American celebration called Pinkster dating back to the 17th century is enjoying a quiet revival in...
Kimberly Hayes Taylor, THE GRIO DETROIT (TheGrio.com) — Civil Rights Activist Myrlie Evers-Williams remembers a bustling, thriving Detroit when she visited her father decades...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Last week, I received an email from my friend, NNPA News Service Editor-in-Chief George E. Curry. It was a...
Skyler Henry, NBC-WGMT MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — After more than a decade of budget worries and two funding campaigns, the Tubman Museum in downtown Macon...
Justin Wm. Moyer, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Let nothing that follows detract from B.B. King’s indelible legacy — a legacy that, though...
