LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The California African American Museum (CAAM) announced today that it will present an exhibition that examines the life, art, and popularity of Ernie...
NEW JOURNAL AND GUIDE — During the 2019 session of the Virginia General Assembly, Black lawmakers and their allies proposed a number of bills to address...
THE AFRO — Beatrice Portia Robinson Yoes was born April 23, 1917 in Chester, Maryland on the Eastern Shore. She came to Baltimore when she was a...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — It’s time we stop lying to ourselves. The lying has gone on much too long and every time the lie is repeated, we are...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “America has an ugly history of racism,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said after addressing Democrats at an annual state dinner in New Hampshire, according...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — Today, while we live in a society that has passed a litany of civil rights bills and other legal protections, rampant social inequality continues...
NASHVILLE PRIDE — While this month is Black History Month, let’s not forget that there is a lot of history that occurred in this country that makes...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — Betrayal is a dangerous charge against anyone entrusted with a nation’s security
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “…As I listened to the words of a song recently, I was captured by the similarity in Dr. King's words and the words...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Adoption is a great option for all families, especially African-American families who typically “take in” children as a regular practice. The informal practice...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — Instruments like drums, trumpets, and tambourines echoed off the walls and The Saints Go Marching In directed the crowd of...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — It was a historic night for voters nationwide. In New Orleans citizens went to the ballot to vote for several...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “…what is wrong with being “politically correct” if it means being perfectly civil, informed, and mindful of others. If African American people say...
THE WEEKLY CHALLENGER — The United States Constitution, which includes the Bill of Rights, or the first 10 amendments, was signed and became the supreme law...
AFRO — During the era of Jim Crow it was not unheard of to have Black children sitting in hot classrooms with no regard for their...
“This is a discriminatory state law that is antiquated and almost equates to the laws that discriminated against racial minorities decades ago when they were required...
THE AFRO — Childish Gambino AKA Donald Glover’s “This is America” video debuted May 5. Since then, it has accumulated almost 380 million views on YouTube.
(ProPublica) – Georgia has been illegally and unnecessarily segregating thousands of students with behavioral issues and disabilities, isolating them in run-down facilities and providing them with...
The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Tributes to the Confederacy and the Jim Crow era that have existed still abound in the Deep South and beyond...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist There are two related violent phenomena in that are now getting renewed public attention and research around...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist We live in a era when humankind seems awash in war-driven atrocities. Men, and in some instances, boys –...
Nate Cohn, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Last month, I wrote an article titled “Evidence That the Jim Crow Era Endures for Older Black...
DALLAS (New York Times) — A block from the tourist-swarmed headquarters of the former Texas School Book Depository sits the old county courthouse, now a museum....
by Avis Thomas-Lester Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Lawrence Guyot battled against voter intimidation in Jim Crow Mississippi in the 1960s and lobbied...
JASON DEAREN, Associated Press LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) — On a sticky hot Sunday in August 1952, a wealthy black woman named Ruby McCollum walked through...
