NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Civics of technology derives from a lot of related concepts, but it’s about how we can use technology to further civic engagement, the...
By Marian Wright Edelman and Julia Cass Special to the NNPA There is a photograph of a back road near Philadelphia, Miss. that was the final stop...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “None of us had any real education in social change. I was a biology major and a preacher. And...
by Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Freedom Summer 1964: It seems that all of my life I have been infected...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Those of us in Mississippi last week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer know very well none of...
By Hollis Watkins Special to the Afro (The Afro)—Racism is still alive and well in Mississippi and throughout this country just as it was in the...
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...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Not every speaker tells a crowd of young leaders that their job is to get into trouble. But that’s...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As a brand new law school graduate in 1963 I was fortunate enough to receive one of the NAACP Legal...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Doctors told Jaime Gonzalez’s parents that his birth defects were so severe he probably wouldn’t live to age one....
