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Congresswoman Johnson Recognizes the Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of...
Washington, D.C. - (Thursday, July 2nd, 2015) - Last Thursday, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson released the following statement in recognition of the anniversary of...
NAACP Concerned by the Outbreak of Church Burnings
BALTIMORE, MD – In the weeks following a church massacre in which nine people were shot dead by a white nationalist at Emanuel AME...
Ford Will Give Away a Car at 2015 ESSENCE Festival; Brings...
- 2015 marks Ford's seventh consecutive year as exclusive automotive sponsor of the ESSENCE Festival, which kicks off this weekend in New Orleans
- Ford...
THURGOOD MARSHALL CENTER TRUST PRESENTS A FILM AND PANEL DISCUSSION...
Washington, DC - June 30, 2015 On Thursday, July 2, on what would be Thurgood Marshall's 107th birthday, the Thurgood Marshall Center Trust will...
UAB Honors the Charleston Victims.
By Chris Ruffin
The Birmingham community came out to participate in Stand in Unity: A Candlelight Vigil for Charleston, to give honor to the nine...
BALTIMORE STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE SWORN IN AS 73rd PRESIDENT OF THE...
Rawlings-Blake Makes History as the First African-American Female President of Organization
San Francisco, CA – The presidential gavel was officially handed to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie...
Why You Can’t Kill the Spirit of Mother Emanuel by Ben...
Ben Jealous
Jotaka Eady
Why You Can't Kill the Spirit of Mother Emanuel
By Ben Jealous and Jotaka Eaddy
You can kill a man, but you...
Michelle Obama’s deeply moving words
Michelle Obama's deeply moving words
BY JESSE JACKSON
June 16, 2015
Last month at the graduation ceremony of Tuskegee University, a historically black college, first lady Michelle...
NEW AUDIO BOOK DETAILS FIRST FICTIONAL & MOST PROBABLE LEGAL BATTLE...
NEW AUDIO BOOK DETAILS FIRST FICTIONAL & MOST PROBABLE LEGAL BATTLE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN REPARATIONS
-- Free copies are now available of "Reparations I:...
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson Continues Push to Defeat Boko Hara
The Florida lawmaker also calls for efforts to prevent the recruitment of young Americans.
If it’s Wednesday, the color of the day in the U.S....
