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Film Review: ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’

June 29, 2015 Staff 0

By Dwight Brown, NNPA Film Critic Sometimes artistry and insanity are so intertwined you can’t distinguish between them. That was the challenge for singer Nina Simone; dealing with worldwide fame and a madness she couldn’t […]

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Phi Beta Sigma Steps Up Efforts Against Racial Intolerance in Honor of Member Slain in Charleston Murders

June 29, 2015 Staff 0

Phi Beta Sigma, Fraternity, Inc., one of the country’s largest African American men’s organizations and community service groups, announced its commitment to galvanize its membership of over 150,000 men and 750 chapters to call for […]

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The Confederate Flag a Symbol of Racism in America – SC Take it Down

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

I don’t know what angered and upset me the most – hearing about the nine blacks murdered in the Charleston, South Carolina African Methodist Episcopal church or hearing some of the nonsense coming from Republicans […]

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Left and Right Converge on Criminal Justice Reform

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist While social change for some may appear to be inevitable, it does not happen by osmosis, and it does not occur without a focused effort led by those […]

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Emmanuel AME and the Buoyancy of Hope

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

By Lee A. Daniels NNPA ColumnistRev. Clementa Pinckney and his fellow congregants of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. gathered as usual in the historic edifice June 17 for their Wednesday evening […]

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Janet Jackson Drops “No Sleeep”: Listen to the Song!

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

  (Eonline) It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! Janet Jackson debuted her highly anticipated new single “No Sleeep” to much fanfare Monday morning. The 49-year-old singer, who is recording her first album in seven […]

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Rawlings-Blake Makes History as the First African-American Female President of U.S. Conference of Mayors

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

San Francisco, CA – The presidential gavel was officially handed to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake today by outgoing U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) President Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, appointing her head of the nonpartisan organization […]

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American Idol Star Tyanna Jones Gives Back to Her Hometown Youth

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

by K. Brooks The young and talented, top five American Idol contestant Tyanna Jones recently visited the Children’s Building at the I.M Sulzbacher Center. Her visit was welcomed with open arms as she brought donated […]

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Support Grows for Taking Down Confederate Flag

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In what is quickly and unexpectedly gaining ground as a fitting memorial to the nine African Americans killed by a White supremacist at Emanuel A.M.E. Church […]

National

Burned NC Church May be Investigated as Hate Crime

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

MEGHAN KENEALLY Digital Reporter Police are investigating whether a fire at a predominantly Black church in North Carolina is a hate crime, authorities have said. A blaze was reported at the Briar Creek Road Baptist […]

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