Assembly Bill (AB) 3121 moves descendants of enslaved Americans one step closer to getting restitution for centuries of free labor and legal discrimination that followed it,...
The East Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors is searching for a new name for the Park District’s 2,540 acre Concord Hills Regional Park that...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Clyburn noted that healthcare and other fraud has run rampant during the current novel coronavirus pandemic and, more than ever, African Americans are...
Of the atrocities in Germany during and after World War II, one caused by the U.S. occupation went largely underreported: thousands of children were born to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — I remember quoting Mama’s explanation of how she got the endearing title, though she had no children of her own. She had said:...
We just celebrated Veterans Day, paying tribute to the young men and women who have served our country. Across the country, families gathered at the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "For now, we will need to hire in-home care to keep her safe and give her the best possible opportunity for recovery, recognizing...
WASHINGTON INFORMER - The U.S. Air Force has named its new trainer jet in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, a squadron of America’s first Black pilots...
FLORDIA COURIER — A Tuskegee Airman and other aviation luminaries will be honored at the Greater Miami Aviation Association’s 92th gala on Saturday, Oct. 12 at...
OAKLAND POST — The Oakland Raiders are active off the field during the teams summer Training Camp operations at the Napa Valley Marriott and the adjacent Redwood...
VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — In 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, two years after the U.S. entered the fight with France and Great Britain against...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Whether it’s taking a stand for the Double V campaign during World War II; marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the...
OAKLAND POST — Inmates at the Marin County Jail have had access to a modest selection of books for many years. What was missing was a catalog...
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CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — The migration of well-to-do millennials, empty nesters and others into cities and the exit of working-class people and/or people of color is a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Today, our nation proudly honors the sacrifices of its heroes. “From the first African-American Medal of Honor recipient to current day Soldiers, individuals...
DALLAS POST TRIBUNE — Robert T. McDaniel, the last member of the all-black elite military crew from Fort Worth that fought during World War II, has died...
All the Fighting 90th Tuskegee Airmen wanted was an opportunity to serve. And in “Black Eagles,” the play by Leslie Lee and directed by L. Peter...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — More than half a million Black African soldiers who fought in the British army were paid up to three times less than...
Yong-soo Lee, 89, a “comfort woman” during World War II, touches the statue of the late Grandma Hak-soon Kim who first broke the silence by publicly...
Adam Taylor, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — As the debate about the use of the Confederate flag raged in the United States this...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring it’s never too late to make things right, President Barack Obama posthumously bestowed the Medal of Honor on...
ARON HELLER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Jennifer Teege stumbled upon a book in a Hamburg library seven years ago, the biracial German woman who...
The Richmond Museum Association recently hosted a crab feed to fund the restoration of the SS Red Oak Victory Ship. In the mid-1990s, the SS Red...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Along Main Street in a small South Carolina city, there is war memorial honoring fallen World War I...