LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — “Gunshot Medley: Part I” is the latest play to hit the stage at the Electric Lodge on Abbot Kinney Boulevard near Venice Beach....
NNPA — “One of the reasons that I don’t think it’s an individual problem is that these folks are talking to each other. There are a...
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — There’s a long, ugly history of white fraternities and yearbook staffs at various universities participating in racist behavior.
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Someone identifying himself as Jimmy Oliver sent me an email objecting to a column I wrote under the headline,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Five days after South Carolina retired the Confederate flag with much fanfare, a small group of protesters...
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — In a town where Confederate soldier statues stand sentinel on the courthouse square and a university campus,...
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — In a town where Confederate soldier statues stand sentinel on the courthouse square and a university campus,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Now that the confederate flag has been taken down, complete with honor guard and pomp and circumstance, what are Black...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CBS News) — Hundreds of people taunted each other on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse during separate rallies staged by two groups...
Greg Lacour, REUTERS COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) — A Ku Klux Klan chapter and an African-American group plan overlapping demonstrations on Saturday outside the South Carolina...
Greg Lacour, REUTERS COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) — A Ku Klux Klan chapter and an African-American group plan overlapping demonstrations on Saturday outside the South Carolina...
By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The confederate flag finally came down in Charleston, S.C. The flag celebrated the sedition, slavery and succession...
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors officials have met with the leader of a Detroit activist group that wants the automaker to cut financial ties with Kid...
(The Washington Post) – There’s this thing people sometimes say down South. So-and-so is “acting brand new.” Sometimes that’s a reference to people behaving like they...
KATHLEEN FOODY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The president of the Atlanta NAACP says the civil rights group wants Confederate symbols — including a giant carving...
SEANNA ADCOX, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — GOP Gov. Nikki Haley’s successful push to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s Statehouse grounds following last...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — General Motors said Tuesday it’ll continue its sponsorship of Kid Rock’s summer concert tour, despite...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The debate in connection with the flags of the former Confederate States of America (CSA) has unleashed a badly...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The debate in connection with the flags of the former Confederate States of America (CSA) has unleashed a badly...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The disclosure that Dylann Roof, the admitted killer of nine unarmed African Americans attending Bible study at Emanuel A.M.E....
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist After a spirited debate, the South Carolina House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The Confederate battle flag flies over the grounds of the South Carolina state Capitol no more. The end-result of...
Vanessa Williams, THE WASHINGTON POST CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Washington Post) — The elaborate ceremony Friday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of...
VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (CBS News) – In New Orleans, Gen. Robert E. Lee still faces north and stands defiant, 150 years after the South surrendered. This...
KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Confederate flag was once a familiar symbol in country music, representing the rural South and the...