NNPA NEWSWIRE — Lenders have been requiring their small business borrowers, as a condition of receiving any short-term loans from them, to sign confessions of judgement...
OAKLAND POST — Patents are important official documents as they are used to safeguard one’s inventions. The first U.S. patent was issued in 1790. But it...
HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES — Comedian and actor Dave Chappelle will make his Broadway debut this summer. Chappelle will perform five shows at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, from July...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As DuVernay’s film gained viewers and momentum and waves of publicity, Linda Fairstein, the main prosecutor of the Central Park Five, was dropped...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — The Columbia Museum of Art announces the second concert in a new, dynamic, free outdoor concert series on the beautifully renovated Boyd Plaza....
SAN ANTONIO OBSERVER — A Black chef and his friends encountered a racist Airbnb host in New York City who asked which 'monkey' would be sleeping on the couch...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — The case was drawn on racial lines from the outset, with the victim being a young white woman, and it drew worldwide...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — A resident of Princeton, NJ, Williams published nearly 10,000 articles and reviews. Throughout his nearly 22-year career as a writer, he was most known...
ROLLINGOUT — The electrifying Netflix miniseries “When They See Us,” which is the true story of the “Central Park 5” teens that Fairstein wrongly prosecuted for...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — DuVernay, who took on the project after Santana suggested it to her via tweet, wants to dramatize what the criminal justice system and...
ATLANTA VOICE — With appearances on NBC’s hit sci-fi series “Manifest” and FX’s “Mayans M.C.,” and Netflix’s “House of Cards,” actor Curtiss Cook is now a reoccurring...
THE AFRO — An area artist, Lindsey Brittain Collins, has dedicated much of her career to examining topics of economic and social issues through art and is...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — This week under the stewardship of Senator Holly J. Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), the California Senate passed Senate Bill 188 known as the Create...
FLORIDA COURIER — Like ticker tape, the messages quickly scroll on the digital billboards.“I saw my brother get shot. I saw my sister get shot. I saw...
ATLANTA TRIBUNE — The idea of a weekend in New York never stops being exciting. Brimming with culture, trend and spectacle — what draws us to the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Systemic racism drives both poverty and the mass incarceration of low-income people, especially people of color. This cycle of poverty and criminal justice...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Today, 51 years later, we have a generation that knew not Dr. King nor Congressman Powell. And what is even more tragic is...
SAN DIEGO VOICE — The San Diego Tenants Union urged Council President Gomez to amend the plan to include rent control.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Dems plan is what it has always been – the Robin Hood strategy. That is, they want to steal from the rich...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Daley is proposing slicing the council by two thirds-taking the number of aldermen from 50 to 15.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Seventy-eight percent of the cigarettes consumed in the Black community are menthol-flavored. As the selling of menthol products become prohibited within Black communities,...
ROLLINGOUT.COM — One of the biggest criticisms of the “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary was its inclusion of radio personality, Charlamagne Tha God.
OKLAHOMA EAGLE — A dozen Tulsa high school students will leave the traditional classroom behind in the spring semester, to be part of an urban classroom...
Street Historian Simon Rutledge (left) speaks to passersby on the streets of New York City at the corner of 96th and Broadway. On any given day,...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers battling over whether the grand jury record in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man should...