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Two Black Authors Declare War Against Illiteracy with New Educational Model

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019 – Authors Leroy and Yvette McClure have kicked off a new educational model with “Why Sammy Still Can’t Read: A Service Delivery Model for Creating a Culture of Reading” Dallas, TX — […]

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Black Consumers and Sellers Gear Up For Historic We Buy Black Convention

August 13, 2019 admin 0

This August marks 400 years since the first Africans reached the shores of Jamestown, Virginia where they were auctioned for sale as slaves. In remembrance of this historic event, one millennial entrepreneur is planning a […]

Entertainment

Godfather of Harlem Series Looks at the Life Work of Original Gangster Bumpy Johnson

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

Epix’s new 10-episode crime series “Godfather of Harlem” stars Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker as the infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson. The story is inspired by Johnson who returned to 1960’s Harlem after a 10-year […]

Editorials

Racially Motivated Mass Murders Multiply and No Solutions are in Site

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood A plague is defined as “an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality.” The chronic school shootings that have become commonplace in America are reminders of our failure as a society […]

Editorials

Toni Morrison’s Passing is a Loss for the Racial Justice Community

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

by Marc Morial “Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless […]

Editorials

Who Cares About Fare Elections?

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor The US House of Representatives passed the Securing America’s Fair Elections (SAFE) Act in June by a nearly totally partisan vote of 225-184 in late June. Only one Republican […]

Editorials

Florida Education Plan Lacking in Both Promise and Practice

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

By Dr. Elizabeth Primas How is Florida addressing the needs of its lowest-performing schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)? Last year, the Collaborative for Student Success an independent non-profit education advocacy organization, sought […]

Editorials

There Are Too Many Guns in America

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

by Shaun King On Saturday evening, at a wonderful festival in Brooklyn just a few miles from my house, 12 people were shot. On Sunday evening, in the Bay Area of California, at a Garlic Food […]

National

Texas officers on horses led handcuffed black man by a rope

August 6, 2019 admin 0

Aug. 6, 2019, 10:11 AM EDT By Elisha Fieldstadt “The police chief in Galveston said the “practice was not used correctly,” considering the nature of the arrest.” A Texas police department changed its policy Monday […]

Book Reviews

Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison Dead At 88

August 6, 2019 admin 0

by Krystal Franklin August 6, 2019  hoto by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Stella Adler Studio of Acting The literary world lost a beloved icon Monday night. Novelist Toni Morrison died at Montefiore Medical Center […]

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