LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Just three months after a judge lifted a 39-year-old consent decree requiring the Baton Rouge Police Department to seek more diversity in its...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — All criminal charges have been dismissed against a prominent local Black Lives Matter leader arrested after a raucous Los Angeles Police Commission meeting...
NNPA CHEVROLET DTU FELLOWS — The analysis of responses from over 5,300 participants in the 2019 Black Census, demonstrate that police violence and impunity — and...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — A group of prominent academics, lawyers and activists published an open letter on May 21 calling for the release of political...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I always say that if you’re in a boardroom or a meeting and you’re the only girl at the table, celebrate that moment;...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I met a brother on the street who asked me why I was running again at my age,” the 78-year-old Herenton said to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The black community in America has not lashed out with retribution, violence or hate. We remain the most abused, but have maintained a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The week, which featured panel discussions and meetings of the board and association of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), also included a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Celebrating 192 years of the Black Press, the NNPA Foundation and NNPA’s member publishers engaged in several workshops throughout the week that centered...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “What an honor to receive this affirmation from what I refer to as the source,” said Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has fought...
ROLLINGOUT.COM — This project represents an electronic exercise in expression.
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Core organizer April Goggans often posted online about a marked police car parked in front of her home and other instances of alleged...
THE SEATTLE MEDIUM — The Black Lives Matter At Schools Movement’s momentum is growing as its impact on the community has been fruitful.
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — The Defender sought out four millennial members of the clergy to get their take on the big issues of the day, and...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — The Defender sought out four millennial members of the clergy to get their take on the big issues of the day
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began his socially conscious ministry at 26, an age we now consider a millennial.
THE AFRO — National and local chapters of the NAACP continue to call out the St. Louis Medical Examiner’s office over the issue of whether the office...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Sherlyn Haynes’ only child, Christopher DeAndre Mitchell, was killed by a Torrance police officer weeks before Christmas.
Children help put finishing touches on a mural at a lot at 75th and Macarthur Boulevard in Oakland in effort for communities to reclaim public land....
As dozens of athletes across the country are joining 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in his national anthem protest, one group of young protestors has grabbed the...
Nearly 100 people showed up to speak at Tuesday’s city council meeting in support of a strong, independent police oversight commission in Oakland, which will be...
By Kim Bellware, Huffington Post and other sources Chicago’s States Attorney Anita Alvarez was ousted in the Democratic primary Tuesday night by challenger Kim Foxx...
By Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby’ Johnson, On Jan. 1, 2009 at 2:11 a.m. on the Fruitvale Bart Station platform, my life was drastically changed forever. Bart...
By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly...