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Sixty years ago, the late Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus led to a year-long boycott of the system by African-American citizens in Alabama’s capitol. President Obama said […]

Laquan McDonald finally got a shred of justice last week when Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who shot the 17-year-old sixteen times last October, was charged with first degree murder. But protesters gathered […]

The Black Lives Matter movement, which many have embraced and others have claimed is anti-police, received an endorsement from President Obama, during a special White House session to deal with reforming the nation’s criminal justice […]

By James Wright Special to the NNPA from the AFRO Minister Louis Farrakhan told a crowd of 200 people that the Nation of Islam will team up with 100 Black Men, an influential national Black […]

Every year, more than 30,000 Americans die by gun violence or commit suicide using a firearm. America has nearly six times the number of gun homicides as Canada, more than seven times as Sweden, and […]

Killings by police that unleashed a new protest movement around the US in 2014, including those of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and John Crawford, are missing from the federal government’s official record of homicides by […]

By Kaitlyn D’Onofrio (Diversity, Inc.)                    A seventh St. Louis church, the Shrine of St. Joseph Catholic Church, was targeted early this morning in yet another case […]

An estimated 5 million to 7.5 million students are chronically absent from school each year, putting them at risk of several negative outcomes. But the Obama administration recently announced a new cross-sector initiative to turn […]