By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Although Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis captured the headlines, it was the death of 26-year-old Jimmie...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Selma’s now for every man, woman and child. Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd. They...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist If you haven’t seen the movie “Selma” yet please hurry up and do I and take your family and...
Dear President Obama: We love you. We respect you. We support you. We strongly supported your becoming President and have continued to support you through...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist I wasn’t surprised that Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” was nearly completely snubbed for the Oscar nominations last week, as were...
Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrice Cullors-Brignac, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—Today, people across the country pause and remember the legacy of civil rights leader, Reverend...
Josh Lederman, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Oprah Winfrey and the rapper Common are joining President Barack Obama for a special screening of the film...
By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson NNPA Guest Columnist The new highly-acclaimed motion picture ”Selma” suggests that former President Lyndon Baines Johnson was not an ardent...
Kate Brumback, ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s traveling Bible hasn’t gone on regular display since President Barack Obama used...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday should have a different impact on the collective consciousness of...
Jonathan Kaminsky, REUTERS SELMA, Ala. (Reuters)—Residents of Selma, Alabama, will next week be offered free screenings of “Selma,” a Golden Globe-nominated film some locals welcome...
Tom Kludt, CNNMoney NEW YORK (CNNMoney)—Oprah Winfrey, meet the leaders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. In a recent interview, Winfrey explained what she would like to...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist The movie Selma, which debuted on Christmas Day, is an eerily timely film detailing a history not taught in...
Christopher Rosen, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—An Oscar contender isn’t an Oscar contender without cries of inaccuracy. That’s where Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” is at right...
Aaron Blake, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—A significant majority of Americans think race relations in the United States are bad, and race issues appear as...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Though many Whites were active in civil rights, few were as influential as John Doar,...
Pete Hammond, DEADLINE LOS ANGELES (Deadline.com)—Is AFI Fest 2014 suddenly starting to turn into one very hot film festival? Yes, they had the World Premiere Thursday of...
By Oscar Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist Twenty one to one are pretty bad odds; particularly when they deal with life and death. But last Friday, ProPublica,...
Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Small communities like Bogalusa, La., often are overlooked in histories of the civil rights movement, but...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The purpose of the law is simple…those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the polling...
By Marian Wright Edelman and Julia Cass Special to the NNPA There is a photograph of a back road near Philadelphia, Miss. that was the final stop...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago this August 4, in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement’s Mississippi Freedom Summer project and...
by Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Freedom Summer 1964: It seems that all of my life I have been infected...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The purpose of the law is simple…those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the polling...
By Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from The Afro (The Afro)—“History does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary,...
