NNPA NEWSWIRE — The contentious nature of these potential cuts has ignited a fierce political battle on Capitol Hill, with far-right Republicans pushing their agenda even...
In California, an increasing number of Japanese, Jewish and other non-Black groups are expressing their support for reparations to Black American residents of the state who...
California’s reparations task panel approved recommendations to compensate and apologize to Black communities for centuries of discrimination. At a meeting in Oakland, the nine-member committee, which...
Food security advocates, policymakers, and others had been warning of the dire consequences to those most in need if Congress chose to halt the extra allotments...
Recently, I received a powerful spiritual anti-cancer turtle medicine bag medallion and rope necklace from Chief Gordon Plain Bull Jr., a member of the Assiniboine and...
Leaders of Native American tribes from across California, joined Governor Gavin Newsom when he signed AB 2022 and four other bills in an effort to build...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In August, Congress repealed section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which provided funding and authorization for the federal government...
“Reparations are designed to repair and heal the damages done to Africans for 400 years who [suffered] through Jim Crow [laws],” California Secretary of State Shirley...
One transformative public safety plan is currently moving forward in Ithaca, New York. It will replace the current police department with a new public safety department...
A 2020 study done as a part of the RAND Corporation’s Gun Policy in America initiative, revealed that of the 27,900 research publications on the effectiveness...
It won’t be an easy time to be a justice committed to achieving justice for all. The court is now dominated by justices who are committed to a very different...
California was among the first states to start tracking racial data to determine why the disease, based on early infection patterns, was disproportionately impacting Blacks, Latinos...
Fort Mose was the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States, and the only one known to have been sponsored by a...
Haaland, a member of New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo tribe and the first Native American to hold a White House cabinet position, made the announcement at a...
“Ethnic media has quickly become an increasingly indispensable bridge for communicating with diverse populations within our state,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at the opening ceremony.
The insurrectos are very different from the insurrectionists you’ve been hearing about in the news recently. The rioters who attacked Capitol Hill on January 6, were...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The movement in the 1960s won a Civil Rights Act and a Voting Rights Act, but the Poor People’s Campaign was about building...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The 19th Amendment was adopted Aug. 18, 1920, after the required number of states ratified the constitutional measure. Though many Black women led...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “More ironic than celebrating “Thanksgiving” during American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month, has to be Black people who would rather identify with...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Before this website, it was impossible to search the web and find an accurate scope of the history of American lynching. The names...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to published reports, three out of every four inmates in Illinois prisons are African American, causing some to conclude that banning the...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — As a civil rights leader, military veteran, sports enthusiast, educator and advocate for social justice, Hyde Park resident Dr. James W. Johnson has impacted...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Indeed, “the slave trade began in the 15th century,” said Boniface Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe in 2007, when he was the acting president of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Now is also a time to remember that regardless of race or ethnicity, our history chronicles the range of hate crimes that have...