THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — A new exhibition has just opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: “Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South.” It includes...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — In 1963, two of James Baldwin’s most influential essays were fused to form a bestselling book titled “The Fire Next Time,” cementing...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — In spite of the forked-tongue talk, doublespeak and patently racist ranting of the pretending President Trump and the White supremacist mob-like cheerleaders...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Twenty students in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s (BCRI) Legacy Youth Leadership Program left Tuesday, July 16 for a three-day tour of historical...
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — From the far reaches of the antebellum south where Afro-Appalachian descendants fought through slavery, reconstruction and Jim Crowism to keep hundreds of...
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — The Jackson Madison County Community Remembrance Project will continue trying to install a plaque that would memorialize three lynchings which took place...
VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — In 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, two years after the U.S. entered the fight with France and Great Britain against...
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — Motown Records was founded in Detroit in 1969 by Berry Gordy Jr. To commemorate its 60th year, the Motown Museum announced plans for its highly...
OAKLAND POST — Patents are important official documents as they are used to safeguard one’s inventions. The first U.S. patent was issued in 1790. But it...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Whether it’s taking a stand for the Double V campaign during World War II; marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the...
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — Recently, the National Trust for Historic Preservation through its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, is proud to announce a crowdfunding campaign...
AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS & ISSUES — Judge John W. Peavy, Jr. was born on April 28, 1942 in Houston, Texas to Malinda Terrell Peavy and John W....
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — August 2019 will mark 400 years of the first documented arrival of Africans brought to America as indentured servants. Children suffered and continue...
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — Over 300 movers and shakers are expected to attend sessions at the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel, and the organization will also...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — It’s been said that any two people on Earth are at least six acquaintance links apart. James “Jim” Robinson is no exception. The...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — Vanderbilt University is pledging $2 million for the National Museum of African American Music, which is scheduled to open a 56,000-square-foot facility in...
NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER — With storm clouds threatening as participants from the Kingsley Association, the Port Authority of Allegheny County, and friends and family of past...
THE AFRO — Cab Calloway’s childhood home is slated for demolition, July 1. A rally in protest of the destruction of the monument to Black, Jazz, and...
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE — We often say in jest that we are going to the plantation when we really mean going to work. But a few years...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — As chairman of the social science department at Kennedy-King College, Ted Williams III is always examining the issues that impact Urban communities. In wondering...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — In two weeks, three aspiring future professional journalists will hit the streets and press conferences in Chicago as interns of the Chicago Crusader. They...
MISSISSIPPI LINK — The Honorable Carlton Reeves, U. S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, called on The Honorable Fred Banks, former Supreme Court...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — There was a significant new development in the historic case of the Sugar Land 95. At a news conference Monday, Fort Bend County...
HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES — On the evening of June 17, 2015, 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof marched into what was typically thought to be the purest form...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — HSBC Bank USA, N.A., (HSBC) recently announced a $50,000 grant to the African American Veterans Monument, the nation’s first-ever memorial dedicated solely to honoring the...