Protester holds a picture of Michael Brown at a rally and vigil August 10. Photos: Cartan X. Mosley by Jihad Hassan Muhammad Special to the NNPA from...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Rachel Jeantel inched toward a high school diploma, she tried to keep in mind that...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist What are we talking about? We talking about fiction or we talking about fact? You talking about fiction? Hold up...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Jordan had no guns. He had no drugs. There was no alcohol. They were coming from the mall. They...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist As we approach the second anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s murder on Sanford, Fla., justice again has been shortchanged in...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Had he not massacred Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman would be an average White man holding down a mediocre job, living...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “I read ’Twelve Years a Slave’ and thought, this is the Anne Frank diary of America.” – Steve McQueen, director...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist All Renisha McBride wanted to do was to go home. She had been in a car accident, her cell phone was...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler.” Gloria Gaines, wife of Cecil Gaines as played by...
[UPI] U.S. black Americans say more civil rights laws are needed to reduce discrimination against blacks in the wake of George Zimmerman‘s acquittal, a poll found. In...
[LAS VEGAS SUN] NAACP President Ben Jealous says he plans to turn over petitions with more than 1.7 million signatures calling on the Department of Justice...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Watching television Saturday night, I sat in stunned silence as the jury returned its not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, is as important as the killing of White mothers’ sons,...
By Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. NNPA Guest Columnist As I spent Sunday listening to everyone pontificate their theories about how White racism led to George Zimmerman’s...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “I believe that’s Trayvon Martin, that’s my baby’s voice. Every mother knows their child, and that’s his voice.” – Sybrina Fulton, mother...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “We’re here to let the community, and particularly teenagers, know that they have a right to walk in peace...
