After growing up in Oakland, Chanée Franklin Minor graduated Cornell’s Law School and worked for the city of Berkeley but due to Oakland’s housing crisis, she’s...
The Coalition for Police Accountability is calling for the firing of Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick in the wake of the 2018 police killing of Joshua...
“We’re not going to throw folks away,” said Dr. Kenneth Anderson at a press conference on Monday to signal the opening of the first “Safe Car...
Just back from a trip to San Diego and Baja California, I can report that the 2019 wildflower season looks like it will be one of...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Children and teens who are deaf or blind will have a great time this summer at an imagination camp designed just for them. Scheduled...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Generally, heart disease is considered a man’s disease, but more Black and White women die of heart disease than all cancers combined. About...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I am deeply disturbed and saddened by the horrific and hate-filled terrorist attacks that took place in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The rich have one standard of education and everyone else has another standard,” National Newspaper Publishers Association president and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Alicia Garza, who coined the term “Black Lives Matter,” is an Oakland-based organizer, writer, public speaker and freedom fighter who also serves as...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I’m excited that this is by us, for us and there’s going to be a lot of great content that reflects our lifestyle,”...
DALLAS POST TRIBUNE — Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American writer, lawyer, and university administrator who was First Lady of the United States from 2009 to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It’s been almost a year since Willie W. Herenton, who has been elected Memphis mayor five times, declared that he wanted back in....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Brie Larson, an excellent dramatic actress, injects humanity, doubt and imperfection into her Vers. It’s just enough to make what could have been...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Jemele Hill was featured at this year’s Annual Norm Brewer First Amendment Lecture. She had famously tested the limits of the First Amendment...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It was fitting that she received recognition because [Juanita Jackson Mitchell] was always one of those unsung champions of the cause and one...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — An estimated 64,000 Black girls and women across the United States that have gone missing. Iniaya Wilson and Skylar Minnie are also among...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — She wanted a better life for her son, so she enrolled him in the Norwalk public schools despite having no real ties to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We send our children to school to get an education and learn to be future leaders in the world. We put our tax...
The 2018 trade war cost the American economy $7.8 billion dollars in lost gross domestic product, according to a new paper authored by a team of...
It was a sleepy South Carolina Saturday in mid-February. But Virginia Sanders was speaking, and the audience was rapt. “One might not have the power. But...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Because of the work of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the Evers' house at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, will now become...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and NID Housing Counseling Agency (NID) entered into a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the...
The following is an open letter to Oakland Police Department Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, Mayor Libby Schaaf, and City Administrator Sabrina Landreth. The Oakland Black Officers Association...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “In Federalist No. 54, James Madison wrote about the chief concern of the representation of slaves concerning taxation and representation,” said Maxim Thorne,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — William Spriggs, a chief economist at the AFL-CIO and professor in the department of Economics at Howard University said since reaching a low...