By Rev. Dr. Martha C. Taylor The late T-Bone Walker, blues singer, said, “The first time I ever heard a boogie-woogie piano was when I went...
By Tamara Shiloh The minstrel shows of the early 19th century are believed by some to be the roots of Black theatre. However, they were written,...
By Richard Johnson The Formally Incarcerated Giving Back (FIGB) org. is launching a voter drive to protect and encourage democratic participation while seeking educational, economic as...
By Emil Guillermo For the last 12 years, the chief justice of California’s State Supreme Court has been Tani Cantil-Sakauye, a history-making Filipino American, the first...
This trip is a collaboration between the NAACP and the Mormon Church Forty-three students are in Ghana for 10 days to experience Ghanaian culture, learn about...
By Tanya Dennis Last week, the Oakland City Council approved $250,000 to assist the East Bay Association of Black Psychologists (EBABP) and Oakland Frontline Healers (OFH)...
By Paul Cobb, Post News Group Publisher Bill Russell, the center of attention in professional basketball, died at 88 after becoming the most decorated athlete in...
Night Out for Safety and Liberation Events Held in More Than 50 Communities Across the Country Photos courtesy of Ella Baker Center, photography by Brooke Anderson...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In an overview posted on Emory’s website, the university noted that “as an interdisciplinary graduate program, the African American Studies Ph.D. Program is...
By Tanya Dennis The Anti Police-Terror Project was formed by a hodge-podge of organizations led by community activist Tur-Ha Ak; nurse, Asantewaa Boykin; poet, Michael Walker,...
From Black Doctor.org Getting into medical school is no small feat, but imagine doing it at just 13 years old. While most 13-year-olds are heading to high...
By Uche J. Uwahemu Liberian presidential candidate attorney Tiawan Saye Gongloe is making a tour of the United States to gather support for his vision of...
By Daisha Williams Girls Inc., a national nonprofit with a branch in downtown Oakland, hosted Bay Area girls in a program to help them navigate crucial...
By Tamara Shiloh Cornelius Vanderbilt, a steamship owner, sat in the dining room of Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., a high-end restaurant that catered...
By Emil Guillermo I confess to being a Raiders fan from a very early age. Even though I was born and raised in San Francisco, as...
By Ben Jealous George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer just over two years ago. His killing sparked a movement to end unjustified police killings...
By Rev. Dr. Martha C. Taylor We are living in a world where controversial, complex issues, disagreements, debates, misunderstandings are looming large. There are controversies on...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media Activists supporting legislation that would have ended involuntary servitude in California prisons and eliminate the word “slavery” from California’s...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media A report released by the California Department of Justice (DOJ) last month revealed that hate crimes targeting Black people...
By Emil Guillermo That James Webb Telescope is so amazing. NASA pointed it into the darkness of space, and suddenly saw the truth—-stars and galaxies we...
By Tamara Shiloh The state of California joined the Union in 1850 as a free state. But after spending five years enslaved there, Bridget “Biddy” Mason...
By Makiah Hiley With the Supreme Court’s recent overturn of Roe v. Wade making abortions illegal in 19 U.S. states, one of the main observations is...
On Thursday June 30, 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, was sworn in by one of her mentors, Justice Steven Breyer, while her husband, Dr. Patrick Jackson,...
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media On June 23, the California Senate rejected a constitutional amendment to remove language in the state Constitution that allows...
By Ben Jealous, President of People For the American Way and Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania “Do you know how it feels to have the president of...
