Skyler Henry, NBC-WGMT MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — After more than a decade of budget worries and two funding campaigns, the Tubman Museum in downtown Macon...
Justin Wm. Moyer, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Let nothing that follows detract from B.B. King’s indelible legacy — a legacy that, though...
John Boyette, THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE (The Augusta Chronicle) — Pete Brown, the first black golfer to win a PGA Tour event, died Friday morning at Doctors...
John Boyette, THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE (The Augusta Chronicle) — Pete Brown, the first black golfer to win a PGA Tour event, died Friday morning at Doctors...
Sam Roberts, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., the first surgeon to successfully implant an automatic heart defibrillator...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Anyone who has followed my columns knows that about this time of the year I normally write something about...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Anyone who has followed my columns knows that about this time of the year I normally write something about...
Margalit Fox, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times)—Phyllis R. Klotman, a film scholar who helped unearth lost treasures of African-American cinema and...
Margalit Fox, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times)—Phyllis R. Klotman, a film scholar who helped unearth lost treasures of African-American cinema and...
Deneen L. Brown, THE WASHINGTON POST SUGARLAND, Md. (THE WASHINGTON POST)—The old people used to say that Sugarland, Maryland, one of the hundreds of...
By Doris I. Mangrum In 1943, a 14 year-old African American male was strolling along the streets of Ferguson, Missouri when the police asked him...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Julie Wolf, THE ROOT (TheRoot.com)—Who was America’s first successful stage magician? He swallowed swords and molten lead. He danced...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Julie Wolf, THE ROOT (TheRoot.com)—Who was America’s first successful stage magician? He swallowed swords and molten lead. He danced...
Julee Wilson, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—Rihanna is officially a Dior Girl! WWD confirmed the exciting news with the famed French fashion house. So what...
By Khari Arnold Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – Though he was the first African American with a doctoral degree in...
David Sommerstein, NPR (NPR.com)—The first black American hockey player in NHL history is telling his story almost 30 years after he retired. Val James was...
Richard Goldstein, THE NEW YORK TIMES DETROIT (The New York Times)—Earl Lloyd, who became the first black player to appear in an N.B.A. game when he...
Richard Goldstein, THE NEW YORK TIMES DETROIT (The New York Times)—Earl Lloyd, who became the first black player to appear in an N.B.A. game when he...
By Charles Blatcher III The National Minority Military Museum Foundation is holding a Tribute to Black Veterans Saturday, Feb. 28, 5 p.m., at de Fremery Recreation...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a W.E.B. DuBois fanatic since my teenage years in...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a W.E.B. DuBois fanatic since my teenage years in...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist We gather together this month to lift up the names that have been frequently lifted, to call the roll...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist We gather together this month to lift up the names that have been frequently lifted, to call the roll...
Brittney Cooper, SALON (Salon.com)—Ruth Bader Ginsburg has emerged as the liberal hero of a hopelessly right-wing Supreme Court, a ram in the bush for those...
Brittney Cooper, SALON (Salon.com)—Ruth Bader Ginsburg has emerged as the liberal hero of a hopelessly right-wing Supreme Court, a ram in the bush for those...
