(Talking Points Memo) – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) quoted from the Bible and told students that America was founded on “racist principles” during...
By Erick Johnson Special to the NNPA from Chicago Crusader CHICAGO (NNPA) – It was Geneva Reed-Veal’s turn to speak about her life after the death of...
John Marzulli, THE DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (The Daily News) — A black cop is blowing the whistle on the NYPD Highway Division, alleging “racism...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist After the horror of the racist terrorist murders in Charleston, S.C., many of us have been crying out with...
Liana Aghajanian, AL JAZEERA AMERICA CLAREMONT, Calif. (Al Jazeera America) — Ask Debbie Allen, a black midwife, what it’s like to give birth as a...
Kate Brumback, ASSOCIATED PRESS GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Citing a sliver of civil rights-era legislation more commonly used as protection against discriminatory landlords, a...
(The Washington Post) – Was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the revered leader of India’s freedom movement, a racist? A controversial new book by two South African university professors reveals shocking details...
(Counter Punch) – Before you think this article is “just one liberal’s opinion,” let me briefly say I have dedicated my life to studying racism. I...
(CNN) – A person may not have to “see color” to be racist. Some blind people, just like sighted people, make judgments about others based on...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s getting more and more difficult to keep up with the lengthening list of people, groups, and nations the...
Justin Glave, THE DAILY BEAST LEE COUNTY, Miss. (The Daily Beast) — Rickey Thompson started a drug court to start treating offenders and stop imprisoning...
(Salon) – George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin who was last seen hawking paintings of the Confederate battle flag that praised the Second Amendment, took to...
By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist One of the enduring debates since the enslavement of Africans in the American colonies has been the extent to...
Evan Sernoffsky, SAN FRANCISCO GATE NAPA VALLEY (San Francisco Gate) — What started as a joyous ride through wine county Saturday afternoon turned into a...
Sarah Wheaton, POLITICO EDGARTOWN, Mass. (Politico) – For America’s black elite, this year’s seasonal sojourn to Martha’s Vineyard turned into a soul-searching retreat. The shooting...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist When it comes to public policy, most citizens tend to think in terms of what government can accomplish on their...
Adam Liptak, THE NEW YORK TIMES SHREVEPORT, La. (The New York Times) — Here are some reasons prosecutors have offered for excluding blacks from...
Raja Jorjani, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Suppose a client walked into my office and told me that police officers in his country...
(The Washington Post) – Marcus Bradley, a delivery driver for Lowe’s Home Improvement in Danville, Va., was making a routine delivery last week when, he said,...
By Oscar H. Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist For more than a century, African tour operators (usually White) have helped their European and American clients bag...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Almost daily there is another fatal case of racially-motivated police brutality that occurs against a Black American woman,...
DANVILLE, Va. (WSET/CNN) — A black delivery driver for Lowe’s says he was told he could not make a delivery because of his race. The home...
MIDTOWN (DNAinfo) — A yellow taxi driver must pay $25,000 in fines and compensation for discriminating against a black family by refusing to pick them up...
By Oscar Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist In the depths of the Cold War that raged in the early 1960s, the USSR was scoring points against...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the world’s leading peace and justice advocates, has called Bryan Stevenson “America’s...
