by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s School of...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s School of...
Jane Stancill, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (Charlotte Observer) — A Duke University professor faced sharp criticism for online comments he made on The New York Times...
Philippe Sotto, ASSOCIATED PRESS RENNES, France (AP) — A French court on Monday acquitted two police officers accused of contributing to the deaths of two...
AUSTIN (Equal Justice Initiative) — Student leaders at the University of Texas in Austin are seeking to remove from their campus a statue of Confederate...
Paul Elias, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Just the original charges were shocking: Six San Francisco police officers were accused of stealing from drug dealers. Then...
Paul Elias, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Just the original charges were shocking: Six San Francisco police officers were accused of stealing from drug dealers. Then...
Jamelle Bouie, SLATE (Slate) — In 1934, Homer Hoyt wrote a dissertation—“One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago: The Relationship of the Growth of Chicago...
Jamelle Bouie, SLATE (Slate) — In 1934, Homer Hoyt wrote a dissertation—“One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago: The Relationship of the Growth of Chicago...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Considerable fanfare greeted Israel’s airlift of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s. The Israeli government...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Considerable fanfare greeted Israel’s airlift of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s. The Israeli government...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist There are many different manifestations of racism in America and throughout the world. But there is not a...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “Americans don’t want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing racist reality. We like to look...
Allie Malloy and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama gave an impassioned and personal commencement speech Saturday on the trials she’s faced as the first African-American...
BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — The Baltimore riots threw a spotlight on the poverty and isolation of the African-American community where the unrest began last...
Abby Phillip, THE WASHINGTON POST ST. LOUIS (The Washington Post) — One woman and her long-lost daughter may have brought a dark chapter from St....
Jeff Amy, ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The last of 10 young white people who repeatedly assaulted African-Americans in Mississippi’s capital city received the...
(CBS News) – Sixty-one percent of Americans now say race relations in the United States are bad, the highest percentage since 1992, according to a...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “It is one measure of the depth and insidiousness of American racism that the nation ignores the rage of...
Leigh Higgins, THE JOURNAL NEWS via USA TODAY RAMAPO, N.Y. (USA Today) — Four black parole officers on official business were held at gunpoint and...
(Salon) Dear White America, It is somewhat strange to address this to you, given that I strongly identify with many aspects of your culture and...
(Salon) Dear White America, It is somewhat strange to address this to you, given that I strongly identify with many aspects of your culture and...
(BBC) – Portugal is often praised for its success in integrating immigrants but in the suburbs of Lisbon police are being accused of racism and brutality....
(BBC) – Portugal is often praised for its success in integrating immigrants but in the suburbs of Lisbon police are being accused of racism and brutality....
by Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The effects of living in a patriarchal, racist society measurably erode Black women’s physical and mental wellbeing,...