Michael Eric Dyson, THE NEW REPUBLIC (The New Republic) — There has been a great deal of commentary about my article on Cornel West published...
Tasbeeh Herwees, GOOD.COM (GOOD.com) — Telling our stories is not just a political necessity, but also an opportunity for catharsis and public healing. Which is why...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Amid tears and cries for justice, demonstrators poured into the streets of Baltimore carrying signs emblazoned with the name...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist On October 16, we will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. In the subsequent two...
Black students at UC Berkeley, saying they are facing isolation, alienation and oppression, are demanding the university’s administrators implement major changes to address the hostile campus...
Nora G. Hertel, THE WAUSAU DAILY HERALD WAUSAU, Wisc. (The Wausau Daily Herald)—A group of downtown Wausau church leaders is planning a Black Lives Matter...
MONTEREY, Calif. (Monterey Herald)—What began as a peaceful and lawful demonstration to raise awareness about police brutality against people of color ended Saturday with several...
By Ron Busby, Sr. NNPA Columnist According to a Nielsen consumer report, African Americans are voracious consumers of media, watching 37 percent more television than any other...
Julie Walker, THE ROOT AUSTIN, Tx. (The Root)—The founders of #BlackLivesMatter are grateful that their message has been picked up by so many people as...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist President Obama marked the 50th anniversary of Selma by celebrating the ordinary heroes who sacrificed so much to...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist President Obama marked the 50th anniversary of Selma by celebrating the ordinary heroes who sacrificed so much to...
By Charles D. Ellison Special to the NNPA from The Philadelphia Tribune (NNPA)—There are now five presidential battleground states in 2016 that could be heavily...
By Stephany Rose NNPA Guest Columnist In the Christian faith, the Syrophoenician woman’s testimony is one of the most popular narratives in the gospels. She...
By Stephany Rose NNPA Guest Columnist In the Christian faith, the Syrophoenician woman’s testimony is one of the most popular narratives in the gospels. She...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The protest slogans addressing our latest struggle for justice and equity compel me to come up with a new...
Over 100 protesters shut down Emeryville Home Depot last Saturday, demanding, “We want answers!” about really happened in the killing of Yuvette Henderson by Emeryville police...
The national message that Black lives matter somehow has not translated to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Statistics show that Black and Brown people continue to be disproportionately...
Local activists in The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) are seeking answers to what happened between Emeryville police officers and Yuvette Henderson, who was shot down by...
By Cathy Cockrell, UC Berkeley News As #BlackLivesMatter protests erupted and spread across the country late last year — everywhere from Ferguson, Missouri, to Sproul Plaza...
Two months after Berkeley police injured peaceful protesters with batons, tear gas and projectiles, some 150 activists led by Berkeley High, Berkeley City College and UC...
By Opal Tometi, executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Reprinted from Huffington Post Everyone knows that...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Blacks and Latinos are incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates in part because police target them...
Nia-Malika Henderson, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—While the protests around Ferguson and the Eric Garner case have largely faded from the political discussion and...
JALEESA JONES, USA Today (USA Today)—#BlackLivesMatter will soon be more than just a Twitter hashtag for students at Dartmouth College. The school will offer a course this...
The Oakland City Council this week continued to come to grips with issues raised at a recent public hearing “on racial inequality within the economic and...