As reports of antisemitic and Islamophobic threats and acts of hate and violence increase in California and across the country, the California Commission on the State...
ARIZONA INFORMANT — Spirit talk is a podcast that gives the spiritual leaders in the community an opportunity to speak out about situations and circumstances that...
On Feb. 16, 2022, a Black student in the Santa Barbara Unified School District was assaulted by Latino students. His attackers called him the N-word and...
By Jared Still, Special to the AFRO From worries about class performance to the daily prospect of violence in a major American inner city environment, college...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Jackson, a renowned figure in the fight for civil rights, founded PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in 1971 and established the National...
By Sheryl Allen Huff NASHVILLE, TN — Rev. Keith Caldwell, a Nashville native, is a longtime grassroots community organizer who, through years of working at the...
Terrible things happen to good people often. We live in an unjust world with people making decisions that are informed more by profit than people. We...
“The Justice Department is committed to prioritizing prevention, investigation, and prosecution of hate crimes,” Associate U.S. Attorney General Vanita Gupta stated. “The FBI’s 2021 Hate Crimes Statistics...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As we prepare to go into 2023, disunity between Blacks and Jews is ahistorical and counterproductive. We cannot afford to be nonchalant or...
Thanks to Gay and Paul Cobb, the owners of the Post News Group (who once marched with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to reinstate our...
THE DEFENDER NETWORK — Jakes passed the symbolic torch to Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts at the culmination of the recent Woman, Thou Art Loosed!: Homecoming! conference....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — This year, Southern Poverty Law Center’s March report, “The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021,” revealed that hate and anti-government extremism have gone...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As I witness you celebrating the overturning of Roe v. Wade, I want to challenge you. I want you to really consider the...
Historically, hate crime data has been underreported. DOJ recognizes that the data presented in its report may not adequately reflect the actual number of hate crime...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — At the Sunday, June 26th ceremony, CIF Southern Section Commissioner of Athletics, Rob Wigod, announced news of the board’s unanimous decision to...
THE ORLANDO ADVOCATE — “A football coach praying by himself on the 50-yard line of the field outside of official gameplay and apart from his official...
LA FOCUS NEWS — In this new role, Nate Looney is a Black man who grew up in Los Angeles, has been tackling the delicate task...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In Los Angeles, CA, Bishop William J. Barber, II said “The same people that are blocking laws that uplift the poor are the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival mobilizes for a massive gathering, Dr. Barber and others have called on...
The six Black-owned media organizations targeting predominantly Black audiences that received grants are: California Black Media ($400,000); The Black Voice News in Riverside County ($100,000); L.A....
The main ingredient of evil is hate, which is rooted in an intense feeling of hostility and aversion. While all hate does not result in crimes,...
Located in Downtown Oakland, Lilly Ayers’ Queen Hippie Gypsy’s ground floor space sells metaphysical tools like crystals, handmade intention candles, incense, books, and herbs that can...
This year commemorates the landmark enactment of the Fair Housing Act 54 years ago on April 11, 1968. WC of ARPB is the local chapter of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The “soft on crime” strategy wasn’t a new way of weakening the power of Black public officials, but what was new was the...
You may have missed the statistics, though you may have felt it instinctively last August when the FBI released the news. Hate crimes targeting people of...