ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked an election-year Democratic bill on Wednesday that would boost the federal minimum wage, handing a defeat...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – Former President George W. Bush said the education achievement gap – up to four years at...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after hailing the Civil Rights Act as a lasting legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, President Barack...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – With civil rights legends Andrew Young, John Lewis, Julian Bond and Jesse Jackson looking on, President...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, TEXAS (NNPA) – Former President Bill Clinton praised President Lyndon B. Johnson for signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – Although he grew up in a rural farming community in Georgia during an era of rigid...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Barack Obama was 2 years old when Lyndon Baines Johnson sat in the East Room of the White...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lyndon Johnson’s presidency has long been viewed in the shadow of the Vietnam War, a conflict that saw...
JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights leaders and representatives from the retail industry met Thursday with New York...
ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — One of the first exhibits visitors see at the newly renovated National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis displays...
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...
Gov. Rick Scott’s restrictive rules regarding restoration of ex-offenders’ civil rights prevent 23 percent of voting-age Black Floridians from voting Special to the NNPA from The...
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...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was blocked by bipartisan Senate opposition...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will speak at an April event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The...
[The Washington Post] The reaction to the mistrial in the Michael Dunn case on the first-degree murder charge for the 2012 killing Jordan Davis was predictable in a...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A group of civil rights leaders met with President Obama and several members of his cabinet last...
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...
[Los Angeles Times] On a straight party-line vote Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved civil rights lawyer Debo Adegbile’s nomination to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division....
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A new study suggests that access to “excellent teachers” should be a civil right and that students...
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 Gary L. Flowers NNPA Columnist Last week’s injustice to the life and legacy of Trayvon Martin takes its infamous place in the annals of United...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist No matter how much some commentators try to spin the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman as an example that...
