By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Remember the Jena Six? Some 15,000 to 20,000 protesters went to Jena, La. in 2006 to demonstrate against injustice. After...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I’m Gonna Make A Change, For Once In My Life It’s Gonna Feel Real Good, Gonna Make A Difference Gonna...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Never did we think we would be planning a funeral, we were waiting on his first day of school....
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Under other circumstances one could simply ridicule the explanations offered by the Ferguson police regarding the killing of Michael...
by Chris B. Bennett Special to the NNPA from The Seattle Medium We are all outraged by the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo....
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The flurry of polls released last week revealed that sharp disagreements exist between Black and White Americans about the...
Darlene Superville, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The “vacation” is over and it’s back to the White House for President Barack Obama. Obama, who returned...
Sara Burnett, ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS (AP) — Since Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer, protesters have taken to the streets of...
(The Washington Post) – In a recent post at Pacific Standard, I examined the relationship between the percent of African Americans in a city population and the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It doesn’t matter if you are state legislator or an alderman, a journalist or a local leader. If you are...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The disjointed, gap-laden manner in which Ferguson, Mo. Police Chief Thomas Jackson revealed the name of the police officer...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The more things change, the more they stay the same. Once again, there is a Black American family...
KSDK-TV, USA TODAY ST. LOUIS, Mo. (USA Today)— More than 100 people rallied in support of Officer Darren Wilson Sunday evening in downtown St. Louis outside the...
DeNeen N. Brown, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Jerry Markon, THE WASHINGTON POST FERGUSON, Mo. (The Washington Post) — The federal government on Sunday took on an intensified role...
