By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Race relations in the United States, especially in the South, are plagued by troubling examples of the challenges that...
By Armstrong Williams (NNPA Newswire Columnist) It seems as though the nation’s cities and major metropolitan areas are sitting in anxious anticipation for the next police...
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As one of the co-founders of the evolving environmental justice movement worldwide, I am always interested in how...
Jason Silverstein, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (The New York Daily News) – Perpetual lunatic George Zimmerman retweeted an image over the weekend showing the...
Washington (CNN) – Ben Carson said Wednesday that Republicans are more colorblind than Democrats when it comes to race. “I find black Republicans are treated extremely well...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Citizens of America: While you were distracted last week by, among other things, the Republican Party’s marathon, second primary...
David Kroll, FORBES (Forbes) – Black children were more than half as likely as white children to be given opioid pain medicine when arriving in U.S. emergency...
WHITNEY, Texas (Fox News 4) – A Central Texas man who claimed anti-police vandals had attacked the family pickup truck has been arrested after police...
ALANNA DURKIN, Associated Press CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — Protests continued Friday over a western Virginia high school’s ban on Confederate flags displayed on clothing and cars,...
David Warren and Jamie Stengle, ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING, Texas (AP) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday and got...
(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...
