By Rev. Amos C. Brown NNPA Guest Columnist Easter was last Sunday, but Rev. Franklin Graham is still wiping egg off his face. In an...
By Rev. Amos C. Brown NNPA Guest Columnist Easter was last Sunday, but Rev. Franklin Graham is still wiping egg off his face. In an...
Wesley Lowery and Kimberyly Kindy, THE WASHINGTON POST FERGUSON, Mo. (The Washington Post)—City officials in Ferguson, Mo., on Thursday evening released the full,...
Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Federal authorities announced Friday that a man has been charged with civil rights crimes for placing a noose...
Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Federal authorities announced Friday that a man has been charged with civil rights crimes for placing a noose...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Kayla Tarrant loves the University of Maryland. But the campus tour guide...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Kayla Tarrant loves the University of Maryland. But the campus tour guide...
EMERY P. DALESIO, Associated Press MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University officials are trying to determine who hung a rope noose from...
EMERY P. DALESIO, Associated Press MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University officials are trying to determine who hung a rope noose from...
Black students at UC Berkeley, saying they are facing isolation, alienation and oppression, are demanding the university’s administrators implement major changes to address the hostile campus...
Michael Brown, Sr., right, and activist Anthony Shahid lead a protest in Clayton, Mo., the seat of government for St. Louis County. (J.A. Salaam/The Final Call)...
Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger via USA TODDAY JACKSON, Miss. (USA Today)—Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist I know from firsthand experience that the “criminal justice system” today in the United States is in serious...
Brennen Williams, HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post)—As America continues to question and wrestle with the myth of a “post-racial” society, it appears Common may have...
KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Associated Press BIELEFELD, Germany (AP) — Yassin Musharbash, a leading German journalist with Jordanian roots, pulls out some recent “fan mail” and starts reading...
(The Huffington Post) – An internal meeting with Starbucks employees held three months ago stirred a powerful discussion on race in America. It has since prompted the...
Kimberly Hefling and Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Their reputations sullied by race-tainted incidents, many colleges are clamping down on campus fraternities....
Jamey Keaton and Philippe Sotto, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France (AP) — Some things have changed since riots swept across France’s troubled neighborhoods a decade ago....
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist No United States president has been more disrespected than Barack Obama – and his family. The hatred for the...
Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR CHARLOTTE, N.C. (NPR.com)—North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has directed his Department of Consumer Affairs to look into reports that some...
(Politico) – News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) report on the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department sheds a brighter light on...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) report on the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department sheds a brighter light on...
Justin Moyer, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—A video of racist chant by men alleged to be fraternity brothers at the University of Oklahoma has...
David Sommerstein, NPR (NPR.com)—The first black American hockey player in NHL history is telling his story almost 30 years after he retired. Val James was...