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Details of the shooter, Payton Gendron’s 180-page manifesto, revealed troubling perceptions the self-avowed white supremacist possessed. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Buffalo, New York Mayor Byron Brow...
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(Photos: CAIR\Twitter) Dozens of major American Muslim organizations united Monday to issue an unprecedented joint statement expressing their unified support for Palestinian human rights and their unified rejection of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Dir...
- 3 days ago
In the wake of the 2020 social uprising in response to the now globally recognized George Floyd killing, many corporations and entities public messaged that change was necessary and specifically the engagement and support of the African American comm...
- 3 days ago
(Photos: Twitter\Wikimedia Commons) Each day, EJI publishes a short account about our nation’s long history of racial injustice and the violence and terror of our past that continues to haunt our present.Most Americans know very little about this his...
- 3 days ago
(Photos: YouTube) The 2022 midterm elections are already underway, with a May 3 primary determining candidates for a key Senate race in Ohio and another coming up on May 17 in Pennsylvania.Elections, however, are about more than candidates. They are...
- 4 days ago
(Photos: YouTube\Instagram\Twitter) Hate crimes and violence are rising across the U.S. and can no longer be ignored. Saturday's shooting in Buffalo, by 18-year-old white supremacist Peyton Gendron, who targeted African-Americans and took the lives o...
- 4 days ago
(Photos: Twitter\YouTube\Children's Defense Fund) As the school year winds down, once again millions of children and families are facing the reality that hunger doesn’t take a summer vacation. This has been especially true over the last two years....
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(Photos: YouTube) “Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’” — Genesis 2:18. RSV One chapter later, after Eve was held responsible for the First Sin (Adam, the submissive male, ju...
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(Photos: Twitter\Screenshot) Jeremy Gibson, 31, a former officer with the Muncie Police Department, in Muncie, Indiana, pleaded guilty Friday to civil rights and obstruction charges. Specifically, the defendant pleaded guilty to a federal civil rig...
- 5 days ago
(Photo/Twitter) Ten people were killed by a gunman dressed in body armor and armed with a high-powered rifle, while three others were wounded – two of them critically – outside and inside a Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue on Saturday afternoon.A...
- 5 days ago
(Photos: Equal Justice Initiative) The Alabama Department of Corrections confirmed on Tuesday that another man was killed in a state prison. At least seven people living in ADOC custody have been killed since January.Terry Jones, 46, died on March 1...
- 6 days ago
(Photos: Twitter\Innocence Project) In 1995, Anthony Dixon was wrongly convicted of a rape and robbery that had occurred two years prior at a motel in Harrisonville, Missouri.The entire case against him rested on a photo identification made by a male...
- 6 days ago
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia After 25 years working as a White House correspondent, April Ryan has seen it all. Before he became president, Barack Obama invited Ryan as a guest of his for a Congressio...
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Cook, well-known for her work on racial and gender equality, won Senate confirmation as the first Black woman to serve on the Fed Board in the agency’s 109-year history. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedi...
- 6 days ago
In Loewe’s all-too-important job as director of African American media, she has ensured that the Black Press and other media of color have enjoyed unprecedented access to the White House and top administration and cabinet officials. By Stacy M. Br...
