NFL Gospel Choir participates in UN Sport Development for Peace
BRADENTON — The Original NFL Gospel Choir, dignitaries, athletes and international game…
African-American Music Appreciation month
BY FRANK DROUZAS Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — June is African-American Music…
Mary Landis Jones Turner: A life to celebrate
BY EMMA C. CAVIN Contributor ST. PETERSBURG – Earlier this month, Mary Landis Jones…
Strange Fruit of a Different Name
Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black body…
Who Was the 1st Black Woman to Play Professional Baseball?
BY: HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. AND JULIE WOLF for The Root When Jackie Robinson stepped onto…
What a black man’s cool, detached gaze says about race in the early days of Italy
From the other side of a narrow ledge, a black man looks out from a picture with an air…
‘Through The Tunnel’
BY ALLEN BUCHANAN, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — The MYcroSchool of Pinellas punctuated…
Pinellas is moving forward
BY COMMISSIONER KENNETH T. WELCH I’d like to update Weekly Challenger readers on…
Sale of Ebony and Jet photos like eating seed corn
Johnson Publications of Chicago — the parent company of Jet and Ebony magazines…
Ira Mckinley: Ex-felon turned filmmaker
BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — As part of its 2015 Heritage Lecture…
How the poster girl for racial intolerance became friends with black classmate only to fall out years later
Almost 70 years later, in a moving book that interviews both figures in the symbolic…
Benching signals end of Griffin’s career – at least in Washington
As the Nos. 1 and 2 overall picks in their respective draft classes, Andrew Luck and…
The meaning behind a black Spaniard’s hopeful gaze upon Our Lady of Mercy
Depicted in a rhythmic, almost dance-like motion, Mary, the Queen of Heaven, offers…
Parental engagement: Don’t blame the victims?
BY GOLIATH J. DAVIS, PH. D, Guest Writer ST. PETERSBURG — Let’s start with an obvious…
Who were the 1st black Federal Court judges?
BY: HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 93: How did black justices…
An open letter to black America: Why you should want the Redskins’ name changed, too
BY GYASI ROSS Ross, Author, attorney, and member of the Blackfeet Nation and Suquamish…
Right wing media pretends racism doesn’t exist
BY GEORGE E. CURRY, NNPA Columnist A new posting by MediaMatters.org, the media watchdog…
Jim Crow’s ancestors and children
BY LEE A. DANIELS, NNPA Columnist At first glance, one might be hard-pressed to think…