NNPA Newswire
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Sep- 2019 -4 September
OP-ED: Ending Fair Housing Rule Removes Opportunities for All
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Of all the issues confronting Americans, none is more basic than that of housing. Whether renting or owning a home, every family needs a place to come…
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4 September
COMMENTARY: A Black and White Life Doesn’t Come Close to Technicolor Living
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A lot of the columns I’ve written were about those who prayed and rejoiced and breathed a sigh of relief at the mere thought of a new…
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2 September
IN MEMORIAM: Baxter Leach, a Soldier for Labor
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Mr. Leach and fellow sanitation workers rose up and in unison shouted to the world, “I AM A MAN.” They marched against the powers that be, earning…
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2 September
Education in the Segregated South: A Determined African American Culture
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The long struggle over the development of education in the postbellum South occurred in large part because no dominant class could convince the freed people that its…
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2 September
National Congress of Black Women to Honor Shirley Chisholm at Annual Brunch
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "We in the National Congress of Black Women consider it an honor to tell the stories of Black women and to remember them at our events as…
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2 September
Court-Ordered Mediation in Maryland HBCU Case Ends without Agreement
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 2013, Judge Catherine Blake of the U.S. District Court of Maryland, found the state in violation of the 14th Amendment rights of its HBCU students and…
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Aug- 2019 -28 August
400 Years in Virginia. 500 Years in Slavery.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Indeed, “the slave trade began in the 15th century,” said Boniface Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe in 2007, when he was the acting president of the United Nations General…
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28 August
How to Be an Anti-Racist, according to Ibram X Kendi
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “A combination of memoir and extension of [Kendi’s] towering Stamped from the Beginning... Never wavering... Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture,…
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28 August
NNPA Celebrates the CBCF’s Annual Legislative Conference
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As the CBCF prepares for its 49th ALC, the focus for all involved will be on social, political and economic issues influencing African Americans and all individuals…
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28 August
Do Black Kids Deserve This Treatment in School?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — After the incident Pearland ISD Board of Trustees member Mikael Floyd stated, "It's no secret that racism, whether intentional or not, has crept into the code. The…
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