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#NNPA BlackPress3 months ago

PRESS ROOM: Strengthening Community: Nissan’s Record Year of Grant Support

NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the 32 years since its founding, the Nissan Foundation has been awarding grants to nonprofits – big and small – that work...
#NNPA BlackPress5 months ago

IN MEMORIAM: Rev. James Lawson, Jr.: A Legendary Civil Rights Leader Who Trained John Lewis in Non-Violence, Dies at 95

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The world won’t get no better if we just let it be.” Rev. James Lawson Jr. embodied these lyrics. He was a courageous...
Activism2 years ago

COMMENTARY: The Cruelty of Exploiting Vulnerable People for Political Advantage

DeSantis’s scheme to deceive, manipulate, and harm vulnerable people seeking asylum in our country is evidence that the cruelty wielded by Trump and embraced by so...
Black History3 years ago

Freedom Summer, A Turning Point in The Civil Rights Movement

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...
Berkeley11 years ago

Local Resident John Taylor Faced Mob Violence in 1961 Freedom Rides

In the historical Freedom Rides of 1961 that challenged the status quo of Jim Crow segregation laws in the South, John Charles Taylor Jr. was one...

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