Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood
by Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen, Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO | This story was originally published by ProPublica.Katie Luck was sitting...
Three Black People Murdered in Jacksonville at the Hands of a White Supremacist with an AK-47
A white racist named Ryan Palmeter, 21, shot and killed three Black people at a Dollar Store in Jacksonville, Florida on August 26. The...
With Carolyn Bryant’s Death, Where is Justice for Emmett Till?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Last year President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law — legislation that had previously been killed more...
Rep. Cori Bush Introduces Bill Calling For $14 Trillion In Reparations
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm...
COMMENTARY: Why Malcolm X Said White People Should Be Like Abolitionist John Brown
Over a century-and-a-half after his death, John Brown resonates in a nation that still has not addressed slavery, racial injustice and white supremacy.COLOR OF...
With Women Imprisonment Rising, Black Females Still Feel the Brunt of America’s Mass Incarceration
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Three years ago, the National Black Women’s Justice Institute partnered with the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and The...
San Francisco Committee Recommends Massive Reparations Payout for Black Residents
By OAKLAND POST‘Centuries of devastation and destruction of Black lives, Black bodies, and Black communities should be met with centuries of restoration’By Stacy M. Brown,...
COMMENTARY: Latest police killings show diversity cannot change a racist system
By Dawn Blagrove, Emancipate NCOn Jan. 7, officers with the Memphis Police Department in Tennessee severely beat Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, when out...
by Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica
Nobody working to bring a $346 million Microsoft project to rural Virginia expected to find graves in the woods. But...
While Black Newspapers Reveal Serial Rapists, Mainstream Turns to Comedy
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Black Press has been the primary voice of the Black community for 196 years. It informs those who are frequently...



