By Nathan Hardin Special to the NNPA from The Fayetteville Observer PEMBROKE – Civil rights leader Benjamin Chavis kicked off a week-long Dr. Martin Luther King...
(Los Angeles Times) – A family feud among the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s children was on display in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday as his...
(New York Times) – The note is just a single sheet gone yellow with age, typewritten and tightly spaced. It’s rife with typos and misspellings and...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic R.I.P. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Your story has been told. Your legacy passed on. Your strategies for non-violent...
(Los Angeles Times) – Nearly 50 years ago, a series of events involving sex, official corruption and a most unlikely ending began unraveling in Washington....
National Newspaper Publishers Association @NNPABlackPress #NNPA #BPUSA #VoiceofBlackAmerica For Immediate Release: Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Interim President and CEO National Newspaper Publishers Association 1816 12th...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Over the course of a 32-year teaching career, Jacqueline James noticed a glaring problem—Black history was...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Singer and activist Harry Belafonte will get to keep three of Martin Luther King’s documents that the King...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home....
by LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte sued the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Tuesday over the fate of three documents...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist For a while, it looked like the 50th anniversary observance of the March on Washington would expose a sharp split in...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wasn’t there by himself. On that sweltering sunlit day of August 28, 1963, King and...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist This weekend, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, best known...
[CBS News] Fifty years ago, George Raveling was a 26-year-old former college basketball star who was not only one of a quarter-million people to witness Martin...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights leaders will march on Washington, D.C. on Saturday, August 24 to observe the 50th anniversary...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist As the country and the world begin to focus on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, this is...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist As we approach the 50th anniversary of the famous March on Washington – Aug. 28 – Americans will recall Dr....
By Rev. Sean Henderson McMillan NNPA Guest Columnist In a few weeks leaders, of the civil rights community will gather again on the steps of Lincoln...
by George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Although the federal government secretly spied on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in the past,...
by Karanja A. Ajanaku Special to the NNPA News Service from The New Tri-State Defender MEMPHIS – A billing for the evening read: “Mountaintop Speech Commemoration.” It...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist August 2013 represents the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. Publicly associated with Dr. King’s famous “I have...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In five months, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. In 1963, the March was jointly called...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Our minds fasten on that single moment on the bus — Mrs. Parks alone in that seat, clutching her...
[CNN] Atlanta (CNN) – In all the 45 years of a commemorative service on the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., there had never been a...
