THE CAROLINIAN — Elbert Frank Cox, born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1895, navigated segregated and underfunded public schools before enrolling at Indiana University Bloomington in 1913....
THE TIMES WEEKLY — A Joliet Junior College documentary, "Still Bridges," examines the complex racial history and social dynamics of Joliet, Illinois. The film uses the...
THE TIMES WEEKLY — A Joliet Junior College documentary, "Still Bridges," examines the complex racial history and social dynamics of Joliet, Illinois. The film uses the...
THE CAROLINIAN — Hattie Wooten Lewis opened the Lewis Hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina, nearly a century ago, creating a vital refuge for Black travelers during...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — These are ideas my colleagues and I believe are very appropriate for preschoolers to explore and revisit often.
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BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — H. Rap Brown did not wait for permission to define himself. Long before federal agents called him a menace and politicians wrote laws...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — “I always tell people,” he said quietly, “the day the Latino, African American, Asian, and other communities realize they share the same oppressor...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Its origin was poisoned by the retreat from Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, but its meaning grew larger. It became a...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The United States has just five percent of the world population yet holds approximately 25 percent of its prisoners. From the beginning of...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — A disturbing discovery in Maryland has reignited calls for urgent reform to the state’s youth justice system, one that critics say still reflects...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Urban League head also offered that some companies spread the support by contributing to HBCUs and civil rights organizations. The report also...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Trump administration has ended a decades-old federal school desegregation order in Louisiana
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Maryland lawmakers have approved Senate Bill 587, authorizing the creation of the Maryland Reparations Commission.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Participants in the April 1 forum on Capitol Hill spoke pointedly on President Trump’s opposition to diversity as well as what their organization...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The changes, initiated without the customary public comment period, have been implemented to align with new executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Reparations United holds that the Evanston Restorative Housing Program is a crime-based claim for apartheid housing policies, and as crimes against humanity, with...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As a former history teacher and student of history, I’m deeply concerned by the dark efforts at work to silence these stories. The...
By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times The Rev. Frank Dukes, an influential Birmingham Civil Rights Movement leader and President of Miles College’s trailblazing student body in...
California’s reparations task panel approved recommendations to compensate and apologize to Black communities for centuries of discrimination. At a meeting in Oakland, the nine-member committee, which...
By Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com) – This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent...
‘Centuries of devastation and destruction of Black lives, Black bodies, and Black communities should be met with centuries of restoration’ By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States,” Jackson asserted. “It is an honor...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The film “Birth of a Planet” tells the story of a group of 13 formerly enslaved men in Richmond, Va. who used a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The story of the abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is familiar, as is the civil rights revolution that...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Sitting inside an office at PGA TOUR headquarters in Ponte Verde, Florida, and preparing to remember what would have been his father’s 100th...
