CHARLESTON, SC Bree Newsome, the 30-year-old woman, who was arrested June 27 for scaling the flag pole in front of the South Carolina Statehouse and removing...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) The recent election of Bishop Michael Curry as the 27th presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church – the...
BALTIMORE, MD From July 11-15, the NAACP will host its 106th Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA. This year’s convention theme is “Pursuing Liberty In the Face...
By Wade Henderson (Trice Edney Wire) – Congress is currently debating a long overdue reauthorization of the nation’s preeminent civil rights education law...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Incidents over just the past two months have taken Black folks on the psychological ride of our lives....
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist As President Obama’s eight years heads into its final stretch, his accomplishments are becoming clear, rising...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist This month marks what would have been the 107th birthday of the late United States Supreme...
By John L. Horton “I have only just a minute, only sixty seconds in it … just a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it.” ...
By King Salim Khalfani In a small gift shop in Atlanta’s airport, a little boy picked out a toy telescope that he wanted ever so badly....
By Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper The recent massacre of nine congregants in an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., by a...