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Old Navy Facing Racist Backlash for Featuring Interracial Couple

May 9, 2016 Staff 0

Racist haters slammed Old Navy for releasing a photo featuring a mixed race family for a recent campaign. Some viewed the ad as white genocide. “Oh, happy day! Our #ThankYouEvent is finally here,” Old Navy […]

Entertainment

Ballerina Misty Copeland to ‘inspire the next generation’ With Her Own Barbie Doll

May 9, 2016 Staff 0

Prima ballerina Misty Copeland is being honored with a Barbie doll in her likeness.Copeland, 33, made history last year when she became the first African-American woman to be named principal dancer at the world-renowned American […]

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Motown the Musical Star Delights in Performing for Family in Jax

April 28, 2016 Staff 0

by L. Jones For one week, Motown The Musical held center stage at the Times Union Moran Center, where Motown music lovers enthusiastically sang in unison hits of the Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, […]

Local

Men of St. Paul AME Preparing Young Black Males for Success

April 28, 2016 Staff 0

St. Paul AME hosted the Sons of Allen dedication of 80 shirts and ties to the 5,000 Role Model of Excellence program. Former senator and community trustee Tony Hill led the call for donations to […]

Local

Mother/Daughter Duos Graduate from EWC

April 28, 2016 Staff 0

Mother’s Day weekend will be extra special for four Edward Waters College students. After decades of putting higher education off, two separate mother-daughter pairs will be graduating together in the Class of 2016 with their […]

National

Tubman, King, Anderson to Grace U.S. Currency

April 28, 2016 Staff 0

U.S. paper money is getting a historic makeover. For the first time in history, famous Black pioneers will grace the U.S. currency. Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist born into slavery, will be the new face […]

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The Battle is Over; Kathleen Battle Returns to the Metropolitan Opera

April 26, 2016 Staff 0

By Frederick H. Lowe World-renown soprano Kathleen Battle will return to the Metropolitan Opera later this year after the  company fired her in 1994 for being too difficult to work with. Battle will perform the […]

Editorials

The Clinton Crime Bill in Context

April 25, 2016 Staff 0

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Former President William Jefferson Clinton mixed it up with Black Lives Matter activists as he defended his Presidency, and his 1994 crime bill, when he was campaigning for candidate Hillary […]

Entertainment

Pop Superstar Prince Dies at his Minnesota Home

April 25, 2016 Staff 0

  In this Feb. 27, 2005 file photo, singer Prince arrives with his wife Manuela Testolini for the 77th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Prince, widely acclaimed as one of the most inventive and influential […]

Editorials

Bernie Sanders Wants Free College for Everyone, But is it a Realistic Concept?

April 25, 2016 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood “Education is a precondition to survival in America today,” said Marian Wright Edelman. Certainly, that belief was rooted at the foundation of President Obama’s announcement last year that he believes that community […]

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