NNPA NEWSWIRE — As DuVernay’s film gained viewers and momentum and waves of publicity, Linda Fairstein, the main prosecutor of the Central Park Five, was dropped...
SAN ANTONIO OBSERVER — History is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth between narratives and many times those narratives swing back around. No other metaphor...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The success for proponents has been increasingly measured in terms of the career, stature, title or reputation loss experienced by the growing group...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As was the case in January, the White House had no initial reaction and no denial to what was reported regarding Cohen’s rendition...
By Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA Three of the last Scottsboro Boys, African American youths falsely accused of raping two White women in 1931, were...
[USA Today] MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s parole board voted Thursday to grant posthumous pardons to men known as the Scottsboro Boys from a 1931 rape case. The Alabama Board...