By Richard Johnson The Formerly Incarcerated Giving Back organization was my brainchild as I struggled in that dark cold dank cell at Pelican Bay State Prison...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Maintaining an accurate account of our history, and history in general, is essential for the present as well as for posterity, as it...
By Emil Guillermo This past week we saw the celebration of Juneteenth come alive with coincidence. On the second year since it became a federal holiday,...
Juneteenth is a day like no other. It is both a celebration of freedom and a reminder of the work that still must be done to...
By Wanda J. Ravernell It was a long time coming. For centuries, they had prayed, fought and died seeking freedom from slavery. The day they had...
The City of Sausalito commemorates Juneteenth with a production of “Words That Made the Difference: Brown v. Board of Education,” a play written and directed by...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Each day Opal Lee would travel two and a half miles each day in recognition of the two and a half years that...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In addition to her screen presence, Lewis is also lauded for using social media to entertain, educate and inform. On Lewis’ social media...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — California Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee fails to understand Cube’s decision. “There’s no consistency in this based on Ice Cube’s history,” Lee voiced in...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Trump’s proposals for Black America include prosecuting Antifa and the the Ku Klux Klan, making Juneteenth a holiday on the federal level proposals...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “More ironic than celebrating “Thanksgiving” during American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month, has to be Black people who would rather identify with...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Dallas County Commissioners Court approved by voice vote, a resolution that honors the life, death and struggles of African people over this...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Fresh Future Farm leased land from the City of North Charleston in 2014. Before they planted their first tree, FFF CEO Germaine Jenkins hoped...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — The United States of America is known for its annual celebration of freedom from the British Empire every year on the Fourth of...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — More than 150 years ago, enslaved Africans in the state of Texas, among the last in the Confederacy to be freed from physical bondage,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The NAACP stands at a significant moment in time when racial subordination and racial hierarchy is being reinforced at the highest level of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to the history of Juneteenth, on June 19th, 1865 and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation...
OKLAHOMA EAGLE — OKPOP, a project of the Oklahoma Historical Society, is planning a special event to mark Juneteenth on Monday, June 17, from 7 to 8...
Danica Smithwick, THE JACKSON SUN (The Jackson Sun) — To commemorate the 150th anniversary of “Juneteenth,” African-American Freedom Day, the Freedmen’s Bureau will launch...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Did you know that the official African-American holidays are: Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth? What do you, and your...
