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...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist Friday, April 4, marks the 46th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on a balcony in Memphis. Black America and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Women’s History Month is a reminder that in every major American social reform movement, women have always played a...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist African American History Month is an appropriate time to raise the question of the relationship between the Civil...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The federal jobs reports for September issued last week showed the year’s slow – and therefore, disappointing – rate of...
[UPI] U.S. black Americans say more civil rights laws are needed to reduce discrimination against blacks in the wake of George Zimmerman‘s acquittal, a poll found. In...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The enduring hope is that race should not matter; the reality is that too often it does.” – Anthony Kennedy,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In five months, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. In 1963, the March was jointly called...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “I risked my life defending that right. If we are ever to actualize the true meaning of equality, effective measures such...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Despite all the infighting going on within my Republican Party, I am seeing reason for great hope as we go...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Within a matter of days late last month, four controversies erupted that acutely underscore the crux of Black Americans continuing...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Our minds fasten on that single moment on the bus — Mrs. Parks alone in that seat, clutching her...
National Black Chamber of Commerce Opposes Law By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNAP) – After hearing oral arguments earlier on whether an affirmative action...
