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THE GUARDIAN – Rachel Dolezal, the civil-rights leader in the middle of a firestorm over accusations that she has been misrepresenting herself as black, has resigned unapologetically from her post at the National Association for […]

McKinney, TX – A police officer’s response to a neighborhood “disturbance” last weekend was so much more disturbing that he was given administrative leave. The unnamed cop from the McKinney, Texas police department was one […]

Kalief Browder, the young man who was robbed of his youth after spending three years incarcerated at Riker’s Island without being convicted of a crime, is dead of apparent suicide, the New Yorker reports. He […]

Think Dr. Seuss and immediately Cat in the Hat, Whoville and children’s bedtime stories come to mind. But did you know he also illustrated racist cartoons? In a 1929 illustration for Judge magazine, he depicted […]

INKSTER, Mich. — A 115-year-old Detroit-area woman is listed as the world’s oldest living person following the death of a 116-year-old Arkansas woman. Jeralean Talley of Inkster tops a list maintained by the Los Angeles-based […]

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNNPA) – Black college educators and supporters are sharply split over whether President Obama’s proposal to offer a free two-year community college education to students making progress […]

KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — With the dismissal of one of two lawsuits that effectively pitted them against each other, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s children took a step Thursday toward resolving […]

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The last several months have seen an outpouring of activism, with slogans coming in waves: “Justice for Mike Brown,” “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” and “I Can’t […]

Congress has voted to establish a national historic park for Harriet Tubman, a conductor on the Underground Railroad. The U.S. Senate voted in December to establish a Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in her former […]