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 …
Grandmother viciously beaten by cop on LA freeway sues
A grandmother caught on video being viciously beaten by a California Highway Patrol officer alongside a Los Angeles freeway has filed a civil rights lawsuit. …
Dispatches from Freedom Summer: The ghosts of Greenwood
Black and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters march on the boardwalk at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. BY …
The phenomenal women of Freedom Summer
Joyce Ladner BY DIAMOND SHARP, The Root Over a 10-week period, 1964′s Freedom Summer brought together nearly 700 student volunteers, local residents and …
Freedom Summer – 50 years
BY GEORGE E. CURRY, NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer is being commemorated this week in Mississippi and it provides the perfect backdrop …