Dispatches from Freedom Summer: The ghosts of Greenwood
Black and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters march on the boardwalk at…
race relations
The phenomenal women of Freedom Summer
Joyce Ladner BY DIAMOND SHARP, The Root Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom…
Race to the bottom
BY JAMES CLINGMAN, NNPA Columnist If you and your children were sitting at the dinner…
Our continuing conversation on race
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist Donald Sterling, the disgraced San Diego Clippers owner…
The browning of public schools after ‘Brown’
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist This is the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown…
Supreme Court continues to limit Affirmative Action
BY JULIANNE MALVEAUX, NNPA Columnist The Roberts Supreme Court decided last week that…
Prizefighter Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter Dies at 76
(AP) Rubin “Hurricane” Carter never surrendered hope of regaining his…
Race Relations & the St. Petersburg PD
Mount Zion Progressive Church, located at 20th St. S., was a hotbed of activity last…