“We’re about balance, inclusion, and stating the case precisely so that it doesn’t face paralysis of analysis or become just another study,” Brown said. “We have...
Yolo County’s Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation members partnered with the Oakland-based Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center for its annual ‘Days of Gratitude’ this Thanksgiving weekend...
Devices used to deter voters included literacy tests and poll taxes, a fee that must be paid by Blacks in order to vote. And Mississippi led...
The Freedom to Vote Act would reverse many of the new anti-voter laws. It would expand access to voting by mail and early voting, make voter...
Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act eliminated racial discrimination in lending, the Black community continues to be denied mortgage loans at rates much higher...
During a 1997 interview with Jet magazine, Taylor described herself as a “blacktivist,” and admitted that she had “no long-term career aspirations as a flight attendant...
I’ll admit it; I was not familiar with Pauli Murray. Honestly, Murray’s extraordinary accomplishments in the years before and after the heyday of the Civil Rights...
We all have some Hispanic heritage in California, whether we own it or not. The style, the language, the names of our cities and streets. All...
At a vote center, you can vote in person, get help in multiple languages, cast your vote by using an accessible voting machine, and utilize same...
He loved to travel, read, promote science, technology and the environment, highlighting the accomplishments of African Americans in this country and throughout the African Diaspora.
They also have met with other civil rights icons, elected officials, and leaders of community, faith-based and labor organizations to learn first-hand history of the civil...
They will visit in 40 cities, towns, sovereign Indian Nations and cultural/historic sites to meet with elected officials, civil rights leaders, judges, tribal leaders, labor, cultural...
Since Floyd’s murder, members of the CLBC have introduced five different bills geared toward eliminating police use of excessive force and encouraging safter and more responsible...
Recently, in some states, most notoriously Georgia and Florida, lawmakers have taken steps to restrict voting access and rights for many Americans. But in California, policymakers and...
THE THREE MOTHERS is an assessment of its subjects’ emotional, moral, physiological, psychological, and familial bearings. Further, it explores each subject’s aspirations and motivations, the inherent...
Bob Dylan once commented that “hearing Odetta on record turned me on to folk singing.”
As the 2020 renewal of the 1963 March on Washington was taking place in the nation’s capital it was also observed in many communities around the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "I am very pleased and very happy to take the time to endorse a friend, a man of courage, and a man of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Many Black churches are using conference calls, Facebook Live, Instagram, YouTube and other video conferencing technologies to hold services. A serious complicating factor...
In 1964, “Freedom Summer” or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a voter registration drive aimed to increase the number of Black voters in Mississippi. On Feb....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “As we deal with some of the most challenging times in modern history, it is important that we understand the significance of the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Fifty-five years ago, a few of our children attempted to march across this bridge. We were beaten, we were tear gassed. I thought...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — When we decided to establish our new headquarters as a living building and began to explore what it takes to do so, we...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "I got started in the African American community. I got involved in the Civil Rights Movement when I was a kid. I helped...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "I intend to work for @cindyhydesmith as if the fate of America depended on her single election," Gov. Phil Bryant tweeted on January...
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