By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist With opportunity gaps widening for poor children and children of color, new guidance from the Office for Civil Rights in...
Mike Schneider, ASSOCIATED PRESS ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — “Stand your ground” statutes benefit whites more than blacks, are unnecessary and cause minority men to live...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American Civil Liberties Union attorney was named Wednesday to be the acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The Leadership Conference of Civil Rights (LCCR), a coalition of more than 200 human rights groups, has issued a new...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. hasn’t left the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building yet, but civil rights...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “Throughout his long career in public service, Eric has built a powerful legacy of making sure that equal justice under the...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Black American leadership too often is taken for granted. Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation from office not...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After being confirmed as the nation’s first African American U.S. attorney general, Eric H. Holder, Jr. wasted little time putting...
Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Moments after making fresh demands that Attorney General Eric Holder open federal investigations into police shootings of unarmed...
(Politico) – Civil rights leaders and community activists cheered when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced on Thursday that the Justice Department would be investigating...
Kimberly Kindy and Carol D. Leonnig, THE WASHINGTON POST FERGUSON, Mo. (The Washington Post)—Federal investigators are focused on one Ferguson, Mo., police officer who fatally...
MICHAEL VIRTANEN, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Macy’s has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle allegations of racial profiling at its flagship store in Manhattan’s...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Twenty years after signing the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” the...
CINCINNATI (AP) — The National Urban League wants to make sure job issues and economic insecurity are in the forefront of this fall’s election campaigns,...
(USA Today) SAN FRANCISCO — Civil rights activists are turning up pressure on Twitter to publicly release the gender and ethnic breakdown of its flock...
National Newspaper Publishers Association @NNPABlackPress #NNPA #BPUSA #VoiceofBlackAmerica For Immediate Release: Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Interim President and CEO National Newspaper Publishers Association 1816 12th...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964,...
By Stan Washington Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Voice On the top floor is the section focusing on the struggle for human rights across...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As voters’ rights advocates and civil rights leaders commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 “Freedom Summer”...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer is being commemorated this week in Mississippi and it provides the perfect backdrop to...
GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A court in eastern China on Thursday sentenced to up to 6 ½ years in prison three activists who...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Victims who were sterilized in North Carolina between 1929 and 1974 – approximately 7,600 people – have...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist When my brother friend Dr. Vincent Harding passed away May 19 at age 82, we lost a beloved historian,...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Race matters…because of the long history of racial minorities being denied access to the political process…because of persistent racial...
[Washington Post] WASHINGTON — With the Republican-led filibuster of a Senate proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 on Wednesday, Democrats moved swiftly to...
