Fake news is old news to black Americans
By D. Watkins, Salon An idiot clicked on a number of bogus news stories floating…
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The temperature of black America
It’s one thing to get mad at a racist cop in Ferguson or Baltimore. But a white…
Black teen mistaken for burglar, pepper sprayed in his white foster parents’ home
Police officers pepper sprayed a black teenager in his white foster parents’ home…
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…
White cops kill at least 2 blacks each week
BY GEORGE E. CURRY, NNPA Columnist Occasionally, police officers behave in such as…
Do we perpetuate black stereotypes?
BY RAYNARD JACKSON, NNPA Columnist Many African Americans feel like there has been an…
Blacks have become obsolete
BY JAMES CLINGMAN, NNPA Columnist A series of recent reports cite the drastic lack of…
SCLC calls press conference for justice in Florida
BY RAVEN JOY SHONEL, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — Representatives from Florida’s…
MLK’s case for reparations included disadvantaged whites
What does white America owe black America? To even broach that question 50 years after…
The state of black euphoria
BY JAMES CLINGMAN, NNPA Columnist How amazing it is that Black people in this nation,…
Dispatches from Freedom Summer: The ghosts of Greenwood
Black and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters march on the boardwalk at…
The phenomenal women of Freedom Summer
Joyce Ladner BY DIAMOND SHARP, The Root Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom…
Who was black America’s 1st investigative journalist?
BY HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. George Washington Williams didn’t travel to the Congo in 1890…
Black America was silent during Rwandan Genocide
BY BILL FLETCHER, JR., NNPA Columnist It was 20 years ago this month that the monstrous…