THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — The Jackson Madison County Community Remembrance Project will continue trying to install a plaque that would memorialize three lynchings which took place...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Hunter was initially charged with committing nine felonies. After charges were dropped on all but one, she was convicted and entered into a...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — 2020 presidential hopeful and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) called out a man at an Independence Day campaign stop in Iowa who...
AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS & ISSUES — During the 86th Legislative Session, I worked with several organizations to pass more than 28 pieces of legislation targeted to help...
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — August 2019 will mark 400 years of the first documented arrival of Africans brought to America as indentured servants. Children suffered and continue...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As is his general habit, Trump lies in his communications and brands places where people of color reside as dangerous. President Trump has...
FLORIDA COURIER — In her new novel, Nicole Dennis-Benn contrasts the deep chasm between the American dream and immigrant reality, and the result is magnetic and wrenching....
LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Facebook says its standards apply just as much in private groups as public posts, prohibiting most slurs and threats based on national origin,...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — Jill Biden says the American people “didn’t buy” any insinuation during the Democratic presidential debate that her husband, former Vice President Joe Biden, is...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Continuing the conversation from its Emmy Award-winning film “The Talk,” Procter & Gamble this week released a new film designed to spark reflection...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Former Cincinnati State Sen. Eric Kearney told a group of Black Press of America publishers that he’s concerned that the prosecution and conviction...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — The subject of reparations for slavery is high in the public consciousness due to several new developments. For one, the issue was addressed...
NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER — Growing up in America can be a very risky business for Black males. Too many—perhaps a majority—of young Black males get mentally “scarred”...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — An Italian eatery in Texas is facing backlash after a recent Black college graduate claims she was racially profiled and ordered to leave...
THE FLORIDA STAR — In my daily stroll through various media outlets, I came across a video of a young man named Craig Brooks. As I continued...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — The NAACP Minneapolis has called for an apology and additional action from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s office after the arrest of two Black women...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — The United States of America is known for its annual celebration of freedom from the British Empire every year on the Fourth of...
ROLLINGOUT — Ta-Nehisi Coates took a moment to verbally dismantle U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. Speaking on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at a U.S. House hearing on reparations,...
Senator José Menéndez Passes Bill Establishing Holocaust Remembrance Week in Public Schools Across Texas By Afram News San Antonio, Texas – Yesterday marked a significant milestone...
ROLLINGOUT — The West Virginia woman who famously disparaged former first lady Michelle Obama as an “ape in heels” on Facebook, has been sentenced to prison...
LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Black police superintendents in two of California’s largest cities have come under intense criticism for their officers’ handling of two high-profile incidents.
SAN ANTONIO OBSERVER — History is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth between narratives and many times those narratives swing back around. No other metaphor...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — A California principal is suspended amid backlash over a photo showing a few teachers posing and smiling with a noose — an...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s words are being twisted into racism and anti-Semitism by House Republicans. Tlaib is one of the first two Muslim...
ROLLINGOUT.COM — A White politician in Georgia is accused of using religion to justify segregation. The incident took place in Hoschton, Georgia after the city’s mayor refused...