Berkeley High School students walked out of classes, rallied on campus and marched to UC Berkeley yesterday in the wake of news that a racist threat...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It ought to be unnecessary for an activist movement to hinge on the principle of the equivalency of life. In...
Nicole Hensley, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS CLEVELAND (The New York Daily News) — About a dozen people leaving the first-ever Black Lives Matter conference...
Nicole Hensley, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS CLEVELAND (The New York Daily News) — About a dozen people leaving the first-ever Black Lives Matter conference...
(The Washington Post) – After an event in Gorham, N.H. today, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush rolled his eyes at the mention of protesters who heckled...
(The Washington Post) – After an event in Gorham, N.H. today, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush rolled his eyes at the mention of protesters who heckled...
(Time) – When Black Lives Matter protestors stormed a room at a meeting in Phoenix and demanded that the 2016 presidential candidates say the names of...
(The Washington Post) – Amid the famous politicians, wealthy donors and top Democratic Party officials invited to New York last month to watch Hillary Rodham Clinton...
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The family of a Chicago-area woman found dead in a Texas jail cell last week is ordering an independent autopsy,...
Aaron Morrison, THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES PHILADELPHIA (The International Business Times) — After a white supremacist gunned down nine worshippers at the historic Mother Emanuel African Methodist...
Special to the Post One week before their Transatlantic educational visit to South Africa, a group of McClymonds students, mentors, and teachers known as “Culture...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist This month marks what would have been the 107th birthday of the late United States Supreme Court Justice...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist This month marks what would have been the 107th birthday of the late United States Supreme Court Justice...
Tre’vell Anderson, THE L.A. TIMES LOS ANGELES (The Los Angeles Times) — At the end of a week full of celebratory moments — Supreme Court...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Huffington Post) — Police say someone spray-painted the message “Black Lives Matter” on a statue memorializing the Confederacy in Charleston several...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the context of the responses to the lynchings of African Americans by police and racist citizenry, greater and...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I only recently embraced my status as an “elder.” Actually, I describe myself as an “episodic elder,” eager enough to...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I only recently embraced my status as an “elder.” Actually, I describe myself as an “episodic elder,” eager enough to...
As part of Creative Time’s Dreaming in Daylight series in Central Park, poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph will present a new art experience, “Black Joy in the...
The John George Democratic Club recently recognized two West Oakland students – fifth grader Alexis McCain and sixth grader Yahya Munsar – for their winning contributions...
By Yahya Munsar, winner of the John George Award “Black Lives Matter” – we’ve heard it many times, but what does it actually mean?
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Hip-hop culture is about transformation. It is more than a global genre of music. Hip-hop is a transcendent...
Jason Hanna, Ralph Ellis, and Greg Botelho, CNN CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) — Yes, Cleveland police Officer Michael Brelo stood on a car and shot 15 times...
Jason Hanna, Ralph Ellis, and Greg Botelho, CNN CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) — Yes, Cleveland police Officer Michael Brelo stood on a car and shot 15 times...
By Lynette Holloway Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender Black women and girls matter too. Don’t forget. #sayhername #BlackWomenMatter #blackwomenslivesmatter pic.twitter.com/SoQde3dshr — satan with...