NNPA NEWSWIRE — Queen Elizabeth II’s legacy isn’t necessarily complicated, but filled with enough ambiguity and action and inaction, that it might be easy to understand...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With an all-Black female crew, American Airlines hosted the Bessie Coleman Aviation All-Stars tour, recognizing how Coleman bravely broke down barriers within the world...
Although the music played by trumpeter John Blanke and other Blacks of his time were fanfares, ballads, and song accompaniments, they still opened doors for those...
Gladys Green married her high school sweetheart George Green when he returned from World War II. The couple moved to Oakland in 1946 to escape the...
Alexandre Dumas wrote plays, both comedies and dramas. Scholars describe his writing as having a “heavy emphasis on plot; his primary skill as a writer consisted...
For France, which colonized Algeria for more than a century, the idea that people from the former colonies should live the life they want seems unbearable....
“The first reason Black parents are reluctant to have their children return to school is health and safety. More Black children are likely to live in...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The African Union President's Office spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo has maintained that Ambassador Chihombori-Quao didn't lose her job because of France or her fiery...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "The globalization construct of divide and conquer is still alive and well," the ambassador stated. "Benin and other small, dependent colonies in Africa...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A war, Mr. Trump may be estimating, could “rescue” him politically, and inject more money into the Pentagon. The U.S. “war strategy” was...
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...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I can remember at a NAMAD banquet there were two tables, maybe three at a conference of minority dealers,” he said. “But I...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Throughout WWII and especially D-Day in 1944, the Black Press dispatched reporters such as the New Journal and Guide’s John Q. ‘Rover’ Jordan,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Thanks to the United States World War I Centennial Commission, Coca Cola and the network of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), a...
THE AFRO — For a dedicated group of audience goers the theater presents that communal experience, and unlike film, offers a unique performance each time the actors...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Among states, Georgia had the largest total number with 256,848 black-owned businesses and accounted for 9.9 percent of the nation’s black-owned businesses, according...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — There were smiles all around in Kenya as French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta shook hands over a series of infrastructure...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Since 2013 the Colour of Music Festival has brought international, national, and regional classically trained black musicians of African descent to share their musical talents.
THE AFRO — Even though Haitians shed blood for American independence, the United States in its foreign policy has always held a deep-seated hostility towards Haiti,
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The fact that slavery was underway for a century in South America before introduction in North America is not widely taught nor commonly...
PARIS (AP) — France’s parliament has voted to forbid big supermarkets from destroying unsold food, encouraging them to donate to charities or farms instead, as...
LORI HINNANT, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is trying to shake up a top-down system of teaching, end an elite bilingual program and give schools...
Philippe Sotto, ASSOCIATED PRESS RENNES, France (AP) — A French court on Monday acquitted two police officers accused of contributing to the deaths of two...
Hippolyte Marboua and Angela Charlton, ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Residents of a squalid refugee camp said Thursday that French soldiers tasked with...
(Telegraph) – France on Tuesday declassified documents in the presidential archives relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which Kigali accuses Paris of having an indirect role. A...