THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — Representative Harold Love (D-District 58) has managed to get chronically underfunded TSU $800,000 for its agricultural research station in McMinnville and $1.1...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The week, which featured panel discussions and meetings of the board and association of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), also included a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Don Rojas has made major contributions to the struggle for freedom in Black communities across the globe. As the first communications director for...
By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Now that the dust has settled around President Obama’s comments at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards Dinner, let...
By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist The “Silly Season,” as many call it, is well under way; and Black people are up to our necks...
Thomas M. Kostigen, USA TODAY (USA Today) — Poorer nations suffering from extreme weather disasters, so much so that their citizens are seeking refugee...
Theodore R. Johnson, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — If you want to shut down a conversation about race, just say the word “reparations.”...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the wake of the mass murder of nine Black church members in Charleston, S.C. and the...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s leaders took a step Wednesday typically reserved for nations trying to make amends for slavery or genocide, agreeing...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Victims of police torture under former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge would share $5.5 million, receive an apology and...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Caribbean governments restated their intention to pursue Britain and other European nations that...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Ever since President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in 1997, we have heard calls for apologies from...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Last week I wrote about the shocking story of how our Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) willfully brought crack cocaine into...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist A caller on the Carl Nelson Show (WOL 1450AM – Washington, D.C.), at least each time I have heard him,...
(The Washington Post) – He paid to get here. Paid with the skull-rattling pain of a metal trash can clattering down hard onto his head...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Victims who were sterilized in North Carolina between 1929 and 1974 – approximately 7,600 people – have...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A new posting by MediaMatters.org, the media watchdog group, sums up the conservative strategy under the headline, “Don’t Litigate It,...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist Not long ago, I attended the release of the National Urban League’s Annual State of Black America Report at the National Press...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Ask anyone you know and you’ll find most Americans don’t see the validity of the issue of reparations for Blacks...
