By Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Callers tell me they have saved this column. Some send it to others in times...
By Rev. Manson B. Johnson Special to the NNPA from Houston Forward Times Matthew 16:19-21 Bible Fact: Jesus expects all of His disciples to demonstrate the authority...
By Pastor E.A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from Houston Forward Times “You were made BY God and FOR God – until you understand that, life...
By James Washington Special to the NNPA from Houston Forward Times I don’t know about you, but there have been times when I have confused being...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It’s possible that lightening may have caused one of the fires. Another may be the result of faulty electricity. Still,...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist This month marks what would have been the 107th birthday of the late United States Supreme Court Justice...
Lauren Talarico, KHOU 11 NEWS SPRING, Texas (KHOU.com) — A Spring family is trying to figure out who vandalized their truck overnight with hate speech...
Janet McConnaughey, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS (AP) — About to be overrun by Germans, a young black lieutenant called in an artillery barrage on his...
Elias Isquith, SALON (Salon.com) — It’s been a little more than two weeks since nine human beings, all African-American, were murdered in a Charleston, South...
by Rev. Manson B. Johnson Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times This week, it was as though we were reliving Sept. 15, 1963,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist On their Website, the Sons of Confederate Veterans describe themselves as preserving the “history and legacy” of the Confederacy. Their...
By Matthew C. Whitaker NNPA Guest Columnist On Wednesday, June 17, Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old White supremacist, massacred nine Black worshipers in the historic Emanuel...
By Robert McWhirter NNPA Guest Columnist The church shooting in Charleston, S.C. once again showed us the connection of guns and race. Statistics of inner city gun...
Ariel Cheung, DNAINFO CHICAGO LAKEVIEW, Chicago (DNAinfo.com) — The 2015 Chicago Pride Parade came to a grinding halt around 1:45 p.m. Sunday as protesters staged a...
(Salon) – On “The O’Reilly Factor” Wednesday night, host Bill O’Reilly had what could charitably be called a tantrum — if any of his viewers...
(Slate) – The group that “informed” Dylann Roof’s deeply racist beliefs, and writings, is the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). Roof even cited the group’s website when talking about his...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s glad he said what he said. And he believes America proved his point on Monday: Even in the wake of...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When President Obama returns to Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. Friday to eulogize Rev. Clementa Pinckney,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In what is quickly and unexpectedly gaining ground as a fitting memorial to the nine African Americans...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley is fond of saying, “Slavery was America’s original sin, and racism remains its unresolved...
Caitlin Dickerson, NPR (NPR) — As a young U.S. Army soldier during World War II, Rollins Edwards knew better than to refuse an assignment....
By Christina Coleman Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender (NNPA) — The South Carolina judge who urged the public support the family of...
Michael D. Shear and Christine Hauser, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — Just days after nine black parishioners were killed in a...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Huffington Post) — Police say someone spray-painted the message “Black Lives Matter” on a statue memorializing the Confederacy in Charleston several...
