By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) A broad coalition of civil rights groups delivered more than 500,000 signed petitions to the Justice Department...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Thursday, Aug. 6, marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act into...
By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide The first showdown in Virginia over the growing call to remove the Confederate flag from...
Compiled from press reports The alleged suicide of Sandra Bland in a Texas jail on July 10 is not the only recent incident of its type....
(Compiled from press and news reports) FERGUSON, Mo. Only weeks after Ferguson Mayor James Knowles barely survived a bid to force a recall election, the city...
(TriceEdneyWire.com) When America’s first Black newspaper was published on March 16, 1827, Black people were still enslaved. Nearly two centuries later, the issues of Black America...
ATLANTA, GA Bobbi Kristina Brown, age 22, died on July 25. She was the only child of the pop stars Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, who...
By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide The current wave of protests and calls for judicial and economics reforms, historians and activists say,...
By Rosaland Tyler Associate Editor New Journal and Guide By transforming her grief into a platform for social change, the mother of Trayvon Martin has received...
Pay up or get out! That was the message one woman received from a pretty harsh letter sent to her by a Florida Church. According to...