By PR Newswire. The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate issued a call to artists across the country to design a chair for...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — Prince fans can catch a glimpse inside the Purple One’s pre-stardom promotional materials, as the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) recently announced the acquisition...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — The Library of Congress announced in November that it has acquired the original manuscripts documenting the work of composer, arranger and pianist Billy...
By Wanda Blake Every year, more information is published about the history and contributions of Blacks in America. Three years ago I was introduced to several...
Though pioneering journalist Richard Durham (1917-1984) made Chicago his home, the subject of Professor Sonja D. Williams’s “Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom” offers...
Three days before the opening of the first African-American Museum of History in Washington, D.C., a dedicated group of academics, students, friends and family gathered the...
Nellie Andreeva, DEADLINE (Deadline.com) — Emmett Till was only 14 when the black teen was brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Mississippi...
Nellie Andreeva, DEADLINE (Deadline.com) — Emmett Till was only 14 when the black teen was brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Mississippi...
Pia Catton, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK (The Wall Street Journal) — Promotions usually mean higher pay, maybe a fancy title. But forMisty Copeland,...
Pia Catton, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK (The Wall Street Journal) — Promotions usually mean higher pay, maybe a fancy title. But forMisty Copeland,...
By Matthew Ridgely Special to the NNPA from The South Florida Times MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (NNPA) — Miami attorney Jason M. Murray becomes the...
June 19 marks the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, the day when the enslaved people in Texas received news from Union soldiers that not only was the...
William Grimes, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Dolores Spikes, who became the first woman to head a university system in the United...
Frank Bruni, THE NEW YORK TIMES PHILADELPHIA (The New York Times) — Last summer, a 13-year-old named Mo’ne Davis landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a...
David Sharp, ASSOCIATED PRESS FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — A former teacher who travels the country to document the final resting places of poets is looking...
David Sharp, ASSOCIATED PRESS FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — A former teacher who travels the country to document the final resting places of poets is looking...
Sebastien Malo, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — An African-American celebration called Pinkster dating back to the 17th century is enjoying a quiet revival in...
Sebastien Malo, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — An African-American celebration called Pinkster dating back to the 17th century is enjoying a quiet revival in...
Kimberly Hayes Taylor, THE GRIO DETROIT (TheGrio.com) — Civil Rights Activist Myrlie Evers-Williams remembers a bustling, thriving Detroit when she visited her father decades...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Last week, I received an email from my friend, NNPA News Service Editor-in-Chief George E. Curry. It was a...
Skyler Henry, NBC-WGMT MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — After more than a decade of budget worries and two funding campaigns, the Tubman Museum in downtown Macon...
Justin Wm. Moyer, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Let nothing that follows detract from B.B. King’s indelible legacy — a legacy that, though...
John Boyette, THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE (The Augusta Chronicle) — Pete Brown, the first black golfer to win a PGA Tour event, died Friday morning at Doctors...
John Boyette, THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE (The Augusta Chronicle) — Pete Brown, the first black golfer to win a PGA Tour event, died Friday morning at Doctors...
Sam Roberts, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., the first surgeon to successfully implant an automatic heart defibrillator...