CHICAGO DEFENDER — OneUnited Bank, the largest Black-owned bank in America announces BankBlack X, a nationwide plan to close the racial wealth gap. The goal of...
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — Pastor Dawson and the nearly 300-member congregation marked the church’s 159th anniversary with a program that marked the occasion and a season of...
THE AFRO — History commonly and most often points to late August in the year 1619 when some “20 and odd Negroes” originating from Angola arrived...
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — It was 400 years ago when the first Africans arrived in Jamestown, Va., marking the beginning of institutionalized slavery. To commemorate this historical...
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — America’s dark tragic past with African Americans through slavery, reconstruction and Jim Crow laws led to many families being forcibly torn apart with...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As the CBCF prepares for its 49th ALC, the focus for all involved will be on social, political and economic issues influencing African...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — An auction took place on March 2 and 3, 1859, at the Ten Broeck Racetrack, where slaves were housed in the stables. The...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Count New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer among those supporting House Resolution 40, legislation by Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee that would form a...
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PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — From the far reaches of the antebellum south where Afro-Appalachian descendants fought through slavery, reconstruction and Jim Crowism to keep hundreds of...
NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER — As Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention he was approached by a woman who asked, “What have you given us, a monarchy...
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 — …the odds of a black man winning inside an American courtroom are tantamount to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
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...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ida B. revered the Black press as an organizing tool. Though her newspaper The Memphis Free Speech was destroyed by racist mobs, she...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Dallas County Commissioners Court approved by voice vote, a resolution that honors the life, death and struggles of African people over this...
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”...
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — Some 200 people participated in a community gratitude ceremony on Saturday, to commemorate the successful preservation of a long-forgotten Kingston historical site —...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — As chairman of the social science department at Kennedy-King College, Ted Williams III is always examining the issues that impact Urban communities. In wondering...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It is undeniable that the Black church and the Black Press have been, and continue to be, the foundational pillars of Black America’s...
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...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — More than 150 years ago, enslaved Africans in the state of Texas, among the last in the Confederacy to be freed from physical bondage,...
God on Wall Street As each day goes by, it seems like the discussion about reparations for African Americans is as isolated today, as it was...
MLK: “America has defaulted on its promissory note to citizens of color” Thomas Jefferson: “God is just and his justice shall not sleep forever.” On the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “As a result of our slave experience, we don’t understand the power and purpose of culture and we seem to be naive in...