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Black Male Hero Disarms Man Who Murdered Four With AR-15 Rifle
By Frederick H. Lowe Special from NorthStarNewsToday.com (TriceEdneyWire.com) – After watching WGN television news in Chicago on Sunday show mugshot after mugshot of black men either under arrest or wanted by police, it was exciting to see a photo, not a mugshot, of James Shaw, Jr., a 29 year-old black man who successfully wrestled away…
Read MoreNNPA Chairman Dorothy R. Leavell Celebrates 50 Years as Publisher of the Crusader Newspapers
By Erick Johnson, Chicago Crusader/NNPA Member The year 1968 was one of the worst years in the short history of the United States. Major cities were on fire, following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4 in Memphis, Tenn. Robert F. Kennedy was killed two months later in California as he…
Read MoreBree Newsome is keynote speaker at CCU’s Ella Baker Day Celebration
Bree Newsome is the keynote speaker for the fifth annual Ella Baker Day Celebration at Coastal Carolina University, which will be held on April 19 at 6 p.m. in the James J. Johnson Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. Newsome drew national attention in 2015 when she climbed the flagpole in…
Read MoreStarbucks and the Growing Climate of Racism and Intolerance
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s premier civil rights organization, issued the following statement following the disgraceful arrest of two African American men in a Philadelphia Starbucks. “The arrest of two Black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks represents another ominous signal of the increasingly dangerous environment for African Americans.…
Read MoreNNPA National Black Voter Registration Drive Begins In North Carolina
By Cash Michaels, NNPA Newswire Contributor DURHAM, N.C.—Ten member newspapers of the North Carolina Black Publishers Association (NCBPA) and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr., the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) have agreed to mount a statewide campaign to maximize the African American vote for the 2018 midterm elections. The NNPA is…
Read MoreAtlanta Based Civil Rights Lawyer Rises From Peace Corps To Sue White Supremacists
By Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service Delma Jackson’s New Year’s morning started with a shocking photo on her cell phone—an image of a man’s beaten, bloodied, swollen face. He was so badly disfigured she initially could not tell it was her husband. Miguel Jackson was an inmate at a south Georgia prison, when prison guards…
Read MoreGentrification Threats Against Housing and Health in the U.S. Capital is a Microcosm for the Nation
By Barrington M. Salmon (TriceEdneyWire.com) – By many measures, the revitalization of neighborhoods across Washington, D.C. has been a windfall for the city. Fueled by higher tax revenues and property values, the city is awash in construction cranes, new libraries, restaurants and retail, and more than 70 miles of bike lanes—all welcomed signs of gentrification…
Read MoreHBCU Collective takes its 2nd Annual Day of Action to Capitol Hill
Every year, HBCUs fall lower on the United States Congress’ list of priorities. In turn, the outcry commences from current students and alumni of these institutions. On April 17, 2018, HBCU Collective will host it’s 2nd Annual Day of Action on Capitol Hill with fellow HBCU students, alumni, and supporters who are concerned with preserving…
Read MoreStephon Clark Remembered by Loved Ones as Activists Call for Justice
By Genoa Barrow SACRAMENTO, Calif. – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Having come together to mourn Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old Black father killed by Sacramento police officers on March 18, many funeral goers voiced the common refrain, “that could have been my son.” Veteran activist Rev. Al Sharpton echoed the sentiment in a rousing eulogy delivered at the…
Read MoreNo Criminal Charges for Officers Involved in the Shooting Death of Alton Sterling: Everything We Know
By 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 that his office would not pursue criminal charges against the officers involved. Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man, was shot six times by a White Baton Rouge police officer on July 5,…
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