Civil rights and media icon Xernona Clayton became the first woman to be enshrined with a statue in downtown Atlanta on March 8, 2023, International Women’s...
“As a veteran of the civil rights movement, during the last six decades, I’ve learned a few things about the importance of people working together across...
The 16th annual MLK Day of Service in Richmond honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was held Jan. 16 with a day of...
The event commemorates the birthday of this great American leader and his lifelong work toward equality and peace. This year’s event will be held at the...
A whole host of partners are involved in the event, including Groundwork Richmond, Rich City Rides’ Moving Forward, Hope Worldwide, The Watershed Project, Contra Costa Resource...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Because of his dedication and steadying hand, the historic all-Black woman board of the NNPA unanimously has chosen Chavis as the recipient of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As we prepare to go into 2023, disunity between Blacks and Jews is ahistorical and counterproductive. We cannot afford to be nonchalant or...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ben Crump, the renowned civil rights attorney and freedom fighter, elicited the night’s biggest applause when he accepted the newly minted Justice Icon...
“The course of this pandemic has revealed the large number of County residents who are living on the brink of the financial crisis, with insufficient savings...
Hundreds of students from northern colleges recruited by the SCLC participated in demonstrations and sit-ins during Easter week of 1964. Most were jailed. “Some were made...
“From access to healthcare to housing and homelessness to criminal justice reform and creating economic opportunity, the CLBC has a long history of legislative accomplishments,” said...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — William Felton Russell was born on Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, La., and his family moved to West Oakland in 1942 when he was...
HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES — According to reports, Republican Representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and...
“This is one of two, free official-sponsored listening sessions that the task force has asked us to do,” said Chris Lodgson, an Elk Grove resident and...
California’s AB 3121, signed into law in 2020, created the nine-member task force to investigate the history and costs of slavery in California and around the...
Right now, an estimated 1.1 million Californians don’t have health insurance and are eligible for more financial health than ever before through Covered California, or they...
The celebration is sponsored by its founders, St. Peter CME Church and the El Cerrito Branch of the NAACP, as well as the Human Relations Commission,...
I got to experience what it would have been like sitting at a lunch counter as a Black person and enduring racial slurs just because I...
“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...
We strolled past The Atlanta Daily World Building — the oldest daily Black newspaper founded in 1928; the unofficial ‘mayor’ of Auburn Avenue John Wesley Dobbs’...
Born in Birmingham, Ala., on June 5, 1946, James Peterson’s life was dedicated to public service. His civil rights work began in the 1960s when he was...
During the two-day meeting that concluded September 24, participants shared details of harrowing incidents that happened in California and across the country.
Regions in the southern, northern, and central part of the state (where many Black farmers reside) should be involved in the process, said Grills. The “listening...
Bob Dylan once commented that “hearing Odetta on record turned me on to folk singing.”
With 11 years of business growth, Mandela Grocery is leading the way to help form new worker co-ops in Oakland. Last spring, Mandela Grocery facilitated a...
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