Commentary
OUR BLACK ELDERS ARE MAD AT US
by Roy S. Johnson Very few people call me “son” anymore. Shelley Stewart does, with my blessing. He’s almost 90, and in weak health now. Some remember him as Shelley the Playboy, the radio griot […]
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National News
3RD STIMULUS CHECK UPDATE: PAYMENTS WILL START IN MARCH
How much you could get and who qualifies? by The Associated Press The third round of stimulus checks – up to $1,400 per person – will start going out this month, President Joe Biden said. […]
Politics
SUPREME COURT COULD PUT NEW LIMITS ON VOTING RIGHTS LAWSUITS
ASSOCIATED PRESS Eight years after carving the heart out of a landmark voting rights law, the Supreme Court is looking at putting new limits on efforts to combat racial discrimination in voting. The justices are […]
Commentary
A QUESTION FOR BLACK AMERICANS: VACCINE OR BODY BAG?
By John E. Warren, Publisher, The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Today there is a crisis in Black America that is greater than the Tuskegee experiment itself. That experiment for more than 30 years deliberately […]
Black History
ELIZABETH KECKLEY, THIRTY YEARS A SLAVE,FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire A Black woman’s memoir published 153 years ago still tops Amazon’s books sales chart. “Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House,” […]
Black History
Business
Actor Danny Glover comes to Bessemer to show support for Amazon union push
By William Thornton | wthornton@al.com “How you doin’?” asked the tall, lean stranger behind the pale blue surgical mask. He was standing outside the main entrance to Amazon’s Bessemer fulfillment center this afternoon, holding a sign […]
Black History
THE DIVERSE HISTORY OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
PRESS RELEASE While Jewish and African American communities have a tumultuous shared history when it comes to the pursuit of civil rights, there is a chapter that is often overlooked. In the 1930s when Jewish […]
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CONGRESSWOMAN BEATTY INTRODUCES BLACK HISTORY MONTH RESOLUTIONS
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire WASHINGTON, DC — To kickoff Black History Month, U.S. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH03), Chair of the powerful Congressional Black Caucus, introduced three related pieces of legislation. Collectively, the resolutions […]
Commentary
The GOP and Selective Amnesia
For those of us who are living today we are witnessing history in real time. The implosion of the Republican Party. The Party that allowed a mad man to take control of it with the […]