JACK ELLIOTT JR., Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Craggy-faced and ornery, Edgar Ray Killen bears the signs of his 89 years. His hands are still...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago this August 4, in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement’s Mississippi Freedom Summer project 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 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...
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 Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic/Travel Writer The 22nd annual Pan African Film Festival (http://www.paff.org) ran from February 6th to the 17th. 177 feature films, docs,...
