NNPA NEWSWIRE — Childcare is work that supports all other work. Mothers, who do most of the caregiving, too often must choose between staying home or...
Robert L. Allen, historian scholar, and civil rights activist, died on July 10 at 82. One of his important works, “The Port Chicago Mutiny,” played a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the 32 years since its founding, the Nissan Foundation has been awarding grants to nonprofits – big and small – that work...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In an era where critical issues often are overlooked, the mainstream media’s priorities remain deeply troubling at best, or at worst, very partisan....
SACRAMENTO OBSERVER — Three years after hearing George Floyd cry “Mama” so desperately that it brought a country out of quarantine, Canadian-American journalist Sam Forster donned a...
There is no greater pain than that of a mother who loses her child — or whose child goes missing. Bettersten Wade has experienced both. Her...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — These posters sent a message to Black veterans that they need not apply — that these life-changing programs were not meant for them....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Despite these positive trends, the report underscores that imprisonment levels remain alarmingly high nationwide, particularly for Black Americans. The authors caution that the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Often called “freedmen’s towns,” “freedom towns,” or “all-black towns,” African American municipalities were established throughout the United States by or for a largely...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dozens of state legislatures introduced bills to restrict the practice of voting by mail. Other states have begun aggressively removing voters from the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The original March on Washington, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement, drew approximately 250,000 participants in 1963. Its influence paved the way...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The new monument will protect places that tell the story of Emmett Till’s too-short life and racially motivated murder, the unjust acquittal of...
The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans delivered its final report to the California Legislature two days before the July...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The United States bears the worrying distinction as “deadliest nation” in the industrialized or “developed world” to be pregnant,” said Dr. Michele Bratcher...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Representatives Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), Justin Jones (D-Nashville), and Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) took to the Tennessee House floor to stand in solidarity with school...
This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent lesson: racism is not just...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The elder McDonald, served as president & CEO of Liberty Bank from its founding in 1972, leading and growing the Black-owned bank for...
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 — Unlike one hundred years ago, we know what’s coming and what we can do to stop such actions. We know that from the...
What began as a solitary peaceful protest for voter registration became one of the South’s most important demonstrations of the civil rights movement. Leaders like Martin...
By Tamara Shiloh It was June 5, 1966. James Howard Meredith (born 1933), on a mission to encourage Black voter registration and defy entrenched racism in...
“While many states have taken steps to expand the right to vote to people with felony convictions, this report makes it clear that millions of our...
When I sit in the company of Mr. Ussery, I am reminded of being in Mississippi. I feel as though I am sitting on my grandfather’s...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — C.J.’s Southern Seasonings originally started as a commercial mobile concession stand in San Antonio where they sold fried fish and seafood. This is...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Department of Eduation officials said they’ve made the application process simple, and if borrowers fail to apply by Nov. 15, they’d still have...
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