By Godfrey Lee Arif Khatib and Pete Elman are promoting and selling their book “Remember Their Sacrifice – Stories of Unheralded Athletes of Color.” They hosted...
By Chuck Finnie Celebrated annually on June 19, Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day and Freedom Day, is an observance of the effective end of slavery...
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of 250 years of legalized enslavement of Africans in the United States. Long before the federal government...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “You’re the scientists, the doctors, the advocates who will bring -- do big things like ending cancer as we know it and even...
By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans is recommending that the State Legislature...
Anna Lee Mraz | Special to California Black Media Partners The fifth of May, Cinco de Mayo, is a holiday that celebrates the Battle of Puebla,...
By Tamara Shiloh It was a time in America when white racial resentment was a critical factor in everyday life. Crowds of Blacks marched and boycotted,...
Born M’bebe Mpessa in the German colony of Cameroon, Louis Brody (1892–1951) won over audiences during the early twentieth century as a prominent actor and musician....
By Ken Epstein The Marcus Foster Education Institute (MFEI), a nonprofit that works for equity and enhanced education opportunities for Oakland students and families, is celebrating...
By Godfrey Lee The Marin City Library, located on 164 Donahue St., will show the film “Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class”...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Vice President Kamala Harris’ historic trip to Africa continued with the launch of global initiatives on...
By Tamara Shiloh Throughout Selma, Ala., there are streets named Frederick D. Reese Parkway and F.D. Reese. In March of each year, the city hosts F.D....
By Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com) – This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent...
By Antonio Ray Harvey and Manny Otiko, California Black Media The San Francisco Branch of the NAACP is engaged in a public information blitz to clarify...
By Antonio Ray Harvey and Manny Otiko, California Black Media The San Francisco Branch of the NAACP is engaged in a public information blitz to clarify...
By Emil Guillermo Was the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg — the man who could make history as the first prosecutor to indict a former president —...
By Mark Hedin California Black Media Since Yvonne Braithwaite Burke became the first Black woman elected to serve in the California State Assembly in 1966, 20...
By Tamara Shiloh From his days as a sharecropper in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, James Leroy Brown (1926−1950) dreamed of becoming a pilot. In school, he excelled at...
By Ivan Natividad Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, UC Berkeley’s chancellor’s professor of history, recently won the prestigious Dan David Prize for her research that focuses on women and slavery....
By Carla Thomas On Saturday, Feb. 26 at the Laney College Odell Johnson Theater, the Third Annual Black Centric Showcase celebrated Black History Month. The show...
By Maxim Elramsisy California Black Media Civil rights and media icon Xernona Clayton became the first woman to be enshrined with a statue in downtown Atlanta...
Cathay Williams knew that she couldn’t volunteer to serve as a regular soldier in the U.S. military. But knowing didn’t stop her. The young girl who...
By Mike Kinney Recently, I received a powerful spiritual anti-cancer turtle medicine bag medallion and rope necklace from Chief Gordon Plain Bull Jr., a member of...
By Brandon Patterson President Joe Biden joined civil rights leaders, congressmembers, and Black Americans from across the country in Selma, Alabama on Sunday to mark the...
By Conway Jones Col. Paris Davis, U.S. Army (Retired), was awarded the Medal of Honor on Friday on March 3, 2023, at the White House. Davis was presented with the...
