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...
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...
By Ken Epstein In the wake of Holy Names University’s sudden announcement that it will close the institution at the end of the semester and sell...
By Ken Epstein In the wake of Holy Names University’s sudden announcement that it will close the institution at the end of the semester and sell...
By Mark Allen Cu Bay City News Outside of a Seafood City Supermarket in Milpitas, a crowd of young Filipino-Americans gathered last weekend to commemorate the...
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media This past weekend, the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans received insight on...
By Navdeep Jassal Post News Group Contributor Navdeep Jassal, has been traveling in South Africa for the last five months and recently had the opportunity to...
By Godfrey Lee Marin City community members Charles Huff, Terri Green, and Walter Turner, who are also former members of the Black Panther Party, spoke of...
