Alice Speri, VICE NEWS ST. LOUIS (Vice.com)—Members of a Missouri-based KKK chapter have been distributing fliers in the St. Louis metro area and on social media promising...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Like everyone else, I am processing the November election results. I will write more about that later, but there was...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Is there any doubt about the preeminence of the race factor that helped to determine the outcome of the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A diverse group of civil rights leaders representing Blacks, Latinos and Asian-Pacific Islanders have joined forces to call for major changes...
Dave Sheinin and Krissah Thompson, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—This season, the National Football League is attempting the impossible, a reasoned but dubious mission...
(The Washington Post) – I knew the day would come, but I didn’t know how it would happen, where I would be, or how I...
(The Independent) – A recently-updated US Army handbook has been found to include “Negro” as an approved term to use when describing black people. The...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Of the nearly 10,000 people who have been infected by the Ebola virus, fewer than 20 have been outside of the...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Justice for 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who was murdered by Michael Dunn in Jacksonville, Fla. on Nov. 23, 2012 in...
Michael Cavna, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)— Today’s instantly infamous “watermelon-flavored toothpaste”Obama cartoon (above) was not only published in the Boston Herald. Jerry Holbert’s shocking commentary...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A proposal to turn the South African home of a slain white extremist into a state-funded museum has...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist On September 15, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka did something quite fascinating. He spoke to a labor audience in St....
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist What was Alessandra Stanley, the longtime television critic of the New York Times, thinking that caused her in that now-infamous article...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I would wager that you have had this experience. It has happened to me on more than one occasion. I...
(BBC) – At the turn of the 20th Century, life was incredibly difficult for the African-American community in the southern states of the US. But...
by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from The Afro-American Newspaper A Black family taking pictures of their son – who has Down’s syndrome –...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Whenever someone accuses an African American of playing the “race card,” I cringe. Racism in America is not...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Well, the season has begun and with it another round of calls for the Washington football team to rid...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist St. Louis County has 90 municipalities – ranging in population from 13 to nearly 52,000 – and most of them...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist We’ve now moved to a new stage of the racist reaction to the police killing of Michael Brown: the largely...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist On the very day that Michael Brown, the slain teenager from Ferguson, Mo., was buried, the Congressional Black Caucus made...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist So now that we know that the state of the Black Community is worse than it was 50 years ago, what...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Public opinion polls confirm a fact that has been documented in instances ranging from the O.J. Simpson verdict to...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Never did we think we would be planning a funeral, we were waiting on his first day of school....
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Under other circumstances one could simply ridicule the explanations offered by the Ferguson police regarding the killing of Michael...
