By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist There is something at work in both the appearance itself of Ana DuVernay’s “Selma” and in the controversy over...
By Nathan Hardin Special to the NNPA from The Fayetteville Observer PEMBROKE – Civil rights leader Benjamin Chavis kicked off a week-long Dr. Martin Luther King...
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...
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...
Jennifer Brett, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION LOS ANGELES (AJC.com)—“Selma” was up for four Golden Globes awards Sunday night and while it claimed only one, for best...
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...
ALEX SANZ, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Forty-nine years after John Lewis and fellow marchers tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the...
(New York Times) – The note is just a single sheet gone yellow with age, typewritten and tightly spaced. It’s rife with typos and misspellings and...
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...
JACK ELLIOTT JR., Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Craggy-faced and ornery, Edgar Ray Killen bears the signs of his 89 years. His hands are still...
ALICIA RANCILIO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At Sunday’s premiere of “Selma” in New York, the cast acknowledged parallels between their film about the African-American...
Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Who, if anyone, is leading the emerging movement around the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner...
by Pastor E. A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times “With quiet courage and nonnegotiable dignity, Rosa Parks was an activist and a...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Washington, D.C. just lost an icon. In the early morning hours of November 23, D.C.’s Mayor for Life succumbed to some...
Ben Nuckols, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP)— Divisive and flamboyant, maddening and beloved, Marion Barry outshone every politician in the 40-year history of District of...
By Sherrel Wheeler Stewart Special to the NNPA The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leader in the transformational nonviolent Civil Rights Movement America in the 1960s,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Though many Whites were active in civil rights, few were as influential as John Doar,...
CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ruby Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she became the first black student to attend a...
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,...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist Have you ever seen a photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taking part of a panel discussion? It’s likely...
