It’s still a pig
Dear Editor, In 2008 shortly after President Obama’s election to office, “The Leadership Conference,” a coalition of civil rights organizations, prepared …
Civil Rights and the Media
BY SKYLA LUCKEY, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — The Florida Holocaust Museum held a panel discussion called Civil Rights and the Media Thurs., Sept. 17. …
White attorney calls on feds to reopen 1940 murder case of NAACP member
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Three quarters of a century after an NAACP activist was murdered for registering black voters in Tennessee, a retired white attorney with …
Jim Gregory’s civil rights odyssey
BY PUNEET SANDHU Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — The Cathedral Church of St. Peter, 140 Fourth St. N., held an event Sun., June 14 for award-winning …
We need a new voting-rights movement
BY: PENIEL E. JOSEPH This time next year, be prepared for rousing speeches, earnest commemorations and moving celebrations that mark the 50th anniversary of …
Why more black Americans should run for elected office
BY: THEODORE R. JOHNSON III On Labor Day in Milwaukee, President Barack Obama gave a rousing speech to supporters in which he accused Republicans of playing …
50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964
BY MARC H. MORIAL, NNPA Columnist “The purpose of the law is simple…those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the polling booths, in the …
The lynching of Eric Garner
BY WALTER FIELDS, NNPA Columnist It was one of the most difficult scenes in Spike Lee’s classic movie “Do the Right Thing,” the brutal strangulation of …
Tony Dungy Unfairly Attacked
BY RAYNARD JACKSON, NNPA Columnist The homosexual mafia has struck again. This time, however, they have picked the wrong target. Beloved former Tampa Bay and …
MLK’s case for reparations included disadvantaged whites
What does white America owe black America? To even broach that question 50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 seems straight-out wacky. Did not the …