Dangerous Stereotypes Stalk Black College Athletes
by Joseph Cooper, University of Connecticut | If you go strictly by the official account, heatstroke was the cause of death for University of...
NAACP to Mobilize Millennials & Youth to Defeat Hate at 109th Annual Convention
BALTIMORE – The NAACP’s 109th National Convention, taking place in San Antonio, TX from July 14th – 18th, will feature a wide variety of events and...
National Urban League: SCOTUS Delivers a Crushing Blow to Livelihood and Rights of Union...
WASHINGTON, DC (June 27, 2018) -- National Urban League President Marc H. Morial today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
POLL: Firing of Roseanne Right or Wrong?
In 2012, during an interview about his role in Django, Jamie Foxx said: My character gets to “kill all the white people . . . ...
Civil Rights Awards Dinner Honors ‘Change Agents’
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights honored inspiring change agents leading the defining movements of the 21st century last night...
‘We ain’t racial’: white Ohioans defend disgusting display of Confederate flags and black statues
About thirty miles east of Cincinnati, Louie Jones, Jr. lives with his daddy in a house that would disturb pretty much any person of...
On 50th Anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., AHF ‘Looks Back in...
LOS ANGELES (April 4, 2018) On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global...
Why Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign Is More Important Than Ever
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis TN, while fighting for a 10-cent wage increase for garbage workers. These efforts by...
No Criminal Charges for Officers Involved in the Shooting Death of Alton Sterling: Everything...
Michele McCalope (NNPA Member/The Drum) | BATON ROUGE—Following a 10-month investigation into the extrajudicial killing of Alton Sterling, Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry announced, during...
King’s Fight for Economic Justice Was Largely Ignored by Mainstream Media
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will always be remembered as a social activist and Baptist minister...
