Ken Thomas, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG GROVE, Iowa (AP) — After bounding atop a blue trailer in a community park, Bernie Sanders quickly reminded people here that Iowa had helped elect the nation’s first black […]
JACKSON, Miss. (The Clarion-Ledger) — In a letter appearing in a full-page ad in today’s Clarion-Ledger, author John Grisham, actor Morgan Freeman, legendary quarterback Archie Manning, “The Help” author Kathryn Stockett and others are calling […]
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, immediate past board chairman of the NAACP, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and co-founder of the […]
By A.R. Shaw, Rolling Out Josephine King, 92, has been a member of the First African Baptist Church in Bainbridge, Georgia, for 50 years, but leaders at the church have revoked her membership due to […]
Stratton and Company, specializing in securing retirement income, knows how to throw a party and who to engage to make their imagination come to life. The ‘wow’ the Retirement Generation event. The party concept lured […]
The Edward Waters College (EWC) Schell Sweet Community Resource Center recently hosted a celebration in honor of Ms. Bertha Adams 100th birthday. Adams was among the first group of seniors to join the first fitness […]
In 1976, approximately 80 black pilots were employed by the nation’s major and commuter passenger airlines and freight carriers. By 1986 that number had risen to nearly 400, and today the total is estimated to […]
By Brandon Larrabee, The News Service of Florida Changes to a proposed map of Florida’s 27 congressional districts emerged this week, a day before key hearings in the House and Senate about how to comply […]
By Gloria Walton (AMERICAN FORUM) – This month, the nation will acknowledge two political milestones. On Aug. 9, we mark the one-year anniversary of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Two days later, we mark the […]
Bishop T.D. Jakes thinks it is “absolutely” possible for the LGBT and black communities to coexist. Jakes, who joined HuffPost Live on Monday, opened up to host Marc Lamont-Hill about his thoughts on the relationship […]
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