Abolitionist Sojourner Truth served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, guiding, cajoling and even threatening runaway slaves to continue their long walks to freedom, often at night, before the Civil War. Hundreds of years […]
By Frederick H. Lowe Stephen Bannon Stephen K. Bannon, who some black leaders called a white supremacist while lobbying against his appointment to the White House staff, today lost his job as President Donald Trump’s […]
By Julianne Malveaux Will another HBCU “bite the dust?” Truly, it depends on us. Pennsylvania’s Cheyney University, the oldest HBCU in the nation (founded in 1837) has been on probation since November 2015. If the […]
Beyond the Rhetoric By Harry C. Alford So far, the Obama Legacy is surprisingly lacking in Black participation. During his two presidential administrations, Black business participation was on a continuous downward slide. At the end […]
(Photo: Instagram) By Aria Ellise, blackdoctor.org Briana Colette Scurry, the goalkeeper who has been called the “Jackie Robinson” of soccer as the only African American starter on the U.S. women’s soccer team, has reason to […]
Dick Gregory By Stacy M Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Legendary civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory died on Saturday. He was 84. Friends, family and celebrities took to social media to honor the icon […]
Berkeley professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig is well versed in employment discrimination so she’s using her expertise to take on school policies that discriminate against Black students by attempting to ban or punish students who wear dreadlocks […]
By Taryn Finely, huffingtonpost.com Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Sandra Bland Act into law Thursday to address the circumstances that led to Bland’s death in July 2015. The new law mandates the county jails […]
(The Guardian) Protesters in North Carolina toppled a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier on Monday at a rally against racism. Activists in Durham brought a ladder to the statue and used a rope […]
Last weekend comedian, actress and author Sherri Shepherd bought her “Wiser, Prettier, Funnier & Tired” tour to the Comedy Zone in Mandarin. A former legal secretary, Sherri is traveling the country sharing her life with […]
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