NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I’m [was] born and raised in this segregated city without any Home Rule rights and no equal rights when the city was segregated,”...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — NEW YORK - February 26, 2019 – Today the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) joined Impact Shares in ringing...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The tribute follows Robinson’s career from his early years as a lovestruck teen to his winning the 2016 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize.
NASHVILLE PRIDE — NMAAM is under construction in the heart of downtown Nashville.
LIVESTREAM - Join Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Congresswoman Karen Bass, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congressman Eddie Bernice Johnson, Congressman Bobby Scott, Congressman Bennie G. Thompson...
NASHVILLE PRIDE — For Black History Month, visit the art galleries at one of the world’s greatest educational institutions, Nashville’s own historic Fisk University.
Dr. Sheila Brooks, the founder, president and CEO of SRB Communications, a full service Washington, D.C.-based advertising and marketing agency, has earned an Image Award nomination...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Wearing a purple suit and hat and seated in the front row at the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, Lee...
THE AFRO — It doesn’t take more than a brief visit to East End Cemetery to see that racial inequality impacts not only the living; it extends...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — In 1802, George Bonga’s birth marked the beginning of Minnesota’s freed Black experience.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “America has an ugly history of racism,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said after addressing Democrats at an annual state dinner in New Hampshire, according...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As a member of the Memphis Branch NAACP, Mr. Sugarmon was instrumental in using the law to fight legal battles to desegregate public...
FLORIDA COURIER — Morehouse College Glee Club and members of the Atlanta Symphoria performed ‘Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — This year marks the 400th year that enslaved Africans arrived in the United States.
WASHINGTON INFORMER — There is a visceral disregard and aggressive muting of the African-American presence in Old Georgetown.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “…there is this misguided group of Afrodescendants, who are throwing shade at those who are not ‘American descendants of slaves’ ADOS. Their shade...
HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES — Comcast and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner recently honored ten (10) community volunteers and civic leaders.
HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES — The historic Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, will celebrate 153 years of ministry and service to the community
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With each masterful stroke of her pen, typewriter or (later) her computer keyboard, Legendary author, Toni Morrison keeps readers of her works and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The names of Echol Cole and Robert Walker are not as widely known as Rosa Parks, James Meredith or any others — and...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — This January 12, 2019 marked the 208th Anniversary of Louisiana’s Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — How is it that the NFL was intentionally tone deaf to the dissonance of rightfully honoring revolutionaries of the past while wrongfully castigating...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — In September, 1997, Dr. Michael Blakey, former Howard University archaeology professor visited New Orleans.
By Ken Foxworth “I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humanity and his integrity.” — Dr. Frank Wilderson, University of...
THE AFRO — Black Love Day, founded by Ayo Handy-Kendi, the Breath Sekou, is celebrating 26 years.