BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Trump administration has intensified its campaign to rewrite how America tells its history, ordering federal agencies to remove exhibits and materials that...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Donald Trump’s latest tirade against a prominent Black media figure is drawing fresh scrutiny of his long-documented history of racist behavior. In a...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Trump administration has ended a decades-old federal school desegregation order in Louisiana
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Trump’s March 27 Executive Order entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” specifically targeted the National Museum of African American History.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — After significant public backlash, the U.S. National Park Service has now appeared to restore its original webpage on the history of the Underground...
A photograph of Harriet Tubman has been removed from a National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The museum's slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians, are the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the history of this country, in the ongoing fight against racial oppression, against a white supremacist narrative, and against the racial apartheid...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This historic event marks the beginning of coalescing The Descendants’ families and like-minded leaders and organizations to catalyze transformative positive societal change amongst...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ernestine “Tina” Martin Wyatt, a great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman, was among those to express excitement about meeting the descendants of fellow freedom fighters....
By Tamara Shiloh The year was 1619. A Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, made its way across the Atlantic Ocean filled with human cargo:...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Given the fact that today in America, Black Americans and other communities of color are being told to shut up, stay asleep, don’t...
From Vallejo Weekly By cityofvallejo WHEREAS, through courage, perseverance, faith, and resolve against incredible prejudice and hardships, Black Americans have positively influenced, enriched, and advanced every aspect of...
By Post Staff An out-of-town developer is trying to build a 40-story high-rise in the middle of Oakland’s Black Movement Arts and Business District against strong...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez, LLC It’s all in the balance. You need to maintain that first and everything else comes next. Without balance, you...
Teaching all children about our shared history by exposing them to books by excellent authors like Carole Boston Weatherford and others who are part of the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The immersive exhibit is made up of 15 photo-friendly, very Instagrammable installation rooms that explore the meaning of womanhood from different perspectives and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “In her extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson was one of the rare award-winning actors whose work on the screen was surpassed only by what...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In April 2016, then-President Barack Obama announced that Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Obama wanted the release of the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "At last, we have a real Wonder Woman who represents strength and beauty. She's the real deal: strong, fearless, mighty, brilliant and she...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Our future VP is who she is and where she is because she is driven in her quest for freedom, justice and equality...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Although Harriet Tubman lived to be 91, she did not see the 19th Amendment pass. However, Ms. Tina Wyatt, great-great-great grandniece of Harriet...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We knew what family meant to her,” said Ernestine (Tina) Martin Wyatt great-great-great-grandniece of Tubman, in a Focus features interview when the movie,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Tallahassee, Florida-based BNC counts as the brainchild of J.C. Watts, Jr., who is described by Tommy Ross, the network's director of communications,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The 19th Amendment was adopted Aug. 18, 1920, after the required number of states ratified the constitutional measure. Though many Black women led...
