(New Pittsburgh Courier) – Family and friends of former D.C. Delegate and Civil Rights icon Walter Fauntroy have grown increasingly concerned following reports that a...
JASON KEYSER, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Willie Barrow, a front-line civil rights fighter for decades and a mentor to younger generations of activists,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEW ANALYSIS SELMA, Ala. (NNPA) – Throughout his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama was dogged by one question: Is...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press SELMA, Alabama (AP) — President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and about 100 members of Congress are among the thousands of...
(Politico) – Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don’t...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In only a few minutes on national television, the beatings of civil rights marchers by police on the...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Imagine being a young teenager and deciding to participate in a serious march...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — When the nation’s first black president steps onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Washington lawmakers, local officials and activists prepare to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist One day in late February 1965, an interracial group of 29 university students rode into a small, segregated town...
Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, it’s a week to invoke America’s civil rights struggles from past to present. The...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to award the Congressional Gold Medal to honor those who participated in the historic Selma civil rights protest...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a W.E.B. DuBois fanatic since my teenage years in...
(CBS News) – Malcolm X was a minister, an orator and a revolutionary, but for Attallah Shabazz, he was simply her father. She is the...
(USA Today) – Rodnell Collins stood next to his uncle, Malcolm X, as the latter stared thoughtfully at Plymouth Rock during a visit to Massachusetts...
Emily Wagster Pettus, ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Anne Moody, whose memoir “Coming of Age in Mississippi” gave a wrenching account of growing up...
WASHINGTON (CBS) – Rosa Parks is known as the mother of the Civil Rights movement, but she is still an enigma in many ways. A new...
By Diane Nash NNPA Guest Columnist Joseph Califano’s statement that Selma was Lyndon B. Johnson’s idea is patently false. Although the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Sam Cooke’s early 1960s pop tune, “Don’t Know Much About History,” was a big hit on the charts. Unfortunately,...
MITCH WEISS, Associated Press ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — The convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height...
By Walter L Fields NNPA Columnist The fierce and aligned, if not coordinated, campaign to smear the motion picture “Selma” by suggesting it inaccurately portrays...
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...
