(Salon) – Black America is tired. The liminal existence of Ellison’s invisible man; Cornel West’s brilliant meditation on “niggerization” as a state of existential fear, where...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the context of the responses to the lynchings of African Americans by police and racist citizenry, greater and...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When racist attitudes, either conscious or subconscious, are combined with the discretionary powers that law enforcement officers have, the result...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Discussions in the news media (I’d rather call it the “Views Media”) regarding the use of the word, “Thug,” are...
Melonyce McAfee, CNN (CNN) –A California auction house is selling an early drawing by Dr. Seuss that’s sure to disappoint the parents and children who adore...
Sindya N. Bahnoo, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — It may be possible to reduce biases regarding race and gender while a person...
(BET.com) – A Black family was told to leave their Long Island, N.Y. neighborhood in a racist letter that police are investigating as a hate crime. Ronica...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Question: When men (and a few women) belonging to gangs known to law enforcement agencies for criminal behavior explode...
D.L. Chandler, NEWSONE MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (NewsOne) — The Atlantic Beach Bikefest, otherwise known as Black Bike Week, is the largest African-American motorcycle rally event in...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s School of...
Jane Stancill, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (Charlotte Observer) — A Duke University professor faced sharp criticism for online comments he made on The New York Times...
Philippe Sotto, ASSOCIATED PRESS RENNES, France (AP) — A French court on Monday acquitted two police officers accused of contributing to the deaths of two...
AUSTIN (Equal Justice Initiative) — Student leaders at the University of Texas in Austin are seeking to remove from their campus a statue of Confederate...
Paul Elias, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Just the original charges were shocking: Six San Francisco police officers were accused of stealing from drug dealers. Then...
Jamelle Bouie, SLATE (Slate) — In 1934, Homer Hoyt wrote a dissertation—“One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago: The Relationship of the Growth of Chicago...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Considerable fanfare greeted Israel’s airlift of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s. The Israeli government...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist There are many different manifestations of racism in America and throughout the world. But there is not a...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “Americans don’t want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing racist reality. We like to look...
Allie Malloy and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama gave an impassioned and personal commencement speech Saturday on the trials she’s faced as the first African-American...
BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — The Baltimore riots threw a spotlight on the poverty and isolation of the African-American community where the unrest began last...
Abby Phillip, THE WASHINGTON POST ST. LOUIS (The Washington Post) — One woman and her long-lost daughter may have brought a dark chapter from St....
Jeff Amy, ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The last of 10 young white people who repeatedly assaulted African-Americans in Mississippi’s capital city received the...
(CBS News) – Sixty-one percent of Americans now say race relations in the United States are bad, the highest percentage since 1992, according to a...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “It is one measure of the depth and insidiousness of American racism that the nation ignores the rage of...
Leigh Higgins, THE JOURNAL NEWS via USA TODAY RAMAPO, N.Y. (USA Today) — Four black parole officers on official business were held at gunpoint and...
