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Black state legislators want economic bailout – ‘in the neighborhood’
by NNPA Editor-in-Chief Hazel Trice Edney Edward Mills Jr., 17, looks forward to beginning a building trades class, part of a Detroit program for youngsters who have dropped out of school. Black state...
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Combat the emasculation of M.L. King Jr.
by W.M.E. we Langa Martin Luther King ponders his response to opponents of open housing who were picketing him in Grosse Point Farms, Mich., as he spoke to 2,700 in a high school gym on March 14, 1968,...
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Celebrating Black Philanthropy Month
by Laura Savage An aerial view of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963 – Photo: Getty This August marks a special month for many reasons to the Black community. Black Philanthropy...
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People power grows, demands justice
by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Protesters in New York City Dec. 4 demand change after the refusal to indict the police officer who murdered Eric Garner with a chokehold. – Photo: Ellen Davidson...
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White terrorist slays nine in Charleston church founded by Denmark Vesey on...
Democracy Now! reports, “Around 5:30 a.m. this morning (June 27), Bree Newsome climbed to the top of the flagpole flying the Confederate battle flag on the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol,...
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Is it illegal to be Black in America?
by Kevin Cooper Sometime in the early 19th century, former United States President Thomas Jefferson stated, “Unchecked power twisted white men’s characters.” Since he was a slave owner and an...
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Watani Stiner: Tending to historical wounds
by Watani Stiner My life began in the Jim Crow South, in Houston, Texas. I remember the segregated world I was born into … the separate water fountains, the back of the bus, the going around to the...
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Class war – not the media hokey pokey – is what it’s all about
Billionaire David Geffen shelters in place in this cute little crib by Norman Solomon Journalists aren’t supposed to “bury the lead.” But when death is the topic and corporate power is the culprit,...
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