It is our sacred duty to remember these and many others who have lost their lives in volatile interactions with police officers. Not only to remember, but to also call their names from time to time and tell the stories they can no longer tell. For many, the only record of their encounter is a […]
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
By Frederick Douglass Excerpted from his speech delivered before the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society, July 5, 1852 in Rochester, N.Y. Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political […]
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Remembering the 1964 Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner
By Donna Lewis Johnson For Blacks of a certain age, the May 25 knee-on-neck killing of George Floyd by a White police officer evokes that awful time in the summer of 1964 when young civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by a Klan mob. Their dead bodies lay hidden in a […]
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Evers Fight Against Injustice Lives Through Current Athletes
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com In many respects Medgar Evers’ life has been defined more by his death than his impact on the fight against systemic racism in the United States. If Evers hadn’t been assassinated in 1963 – the same year Camelot ended with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy […]
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Revisiting Emmett Till: 65 Years Later: No Justice and Still No Peace
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com A 14-year-old from Chicago was lynched on August 28, 1955, in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with Carolyn Bryant, a White woman. While Emmett Till’s brutalized body and unrecognizable features became the face of the Civil Rights Movement, 65 years after his death, his murderers, Roy Bryant and J.W. […]
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OP-ED: Past Due Time for American Healthcare System to Protect Black Americans
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers Association Today, Americans are facing unprecedented times. We are in the midst of a global pandemic, our country has fallen into an economic recession, and hundreds of thousands are protesting police brutality and racial injustice. But there is another epidemic in this country […]
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President Trump Tweets Out White Power Message, Black Republican Senator Tim Scott Expresses Dismay
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor In yet another social media moment invoking race in America, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of a supporter heard yelling, “White power!” The tweet displayed a video of a parade of supporters of the President riding golf carts through a retirement community in Florida called “The Villages.” […]
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Former Cop Who Placed Knee On Black Woman’s Neck Booked For Misconduct (video)
By N. Ali Early Another incident of police brutality against an African American has surfaced. According to the Miami Herald, Safiya Satchell was sitting in her Mercedes SUV when she was approached by an off duty police officer who was working as security for a strip club in the immediate proximity of the incident, which occurred on Jan. 14. Satchell […]
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Baltimore Mayor’s Race: Candidates Shift Strategies in Crisis
By Stephen Janis and Taya Graham Special to the AFRO The novel coronavirus pandemic may have shut down the city and postponed the mayoral primary, but inevitably Baltimore will have to choose a new mayor. Gov. Larry Hogan has moved the primary to June 2nd, as part of statewide curtailing of any activity that would […]
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Senate Passes Coronavirus Rescue Package On Unanimous Vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a mammoth $2.2 trillion economic rescue package steering aid to businesses, workers and health care systems engulfed by the coronavirus pandemic, an unprecedented response amid record new jobless claims and mounting evidence that the economy is in a recession. The unanimous Senate vote late Wednesday came despite misgivings on both sides about […]
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Charter, Comcast Offer Free Internet to Students
By Black Press USA As many Southland educational institutions are closing as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a pair of internet providers today announced plans to provide free internet to households with students. Charter and Comcast announced March 13 that they would offer 60 days of complimentary broadband to homes with K-12 or college […]
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Barrier Breaking Bishop Dies at 89
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com In the middle of Women’s History Month, the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris, a barrier-breaking heroine, the first woman to be ordained and consecrated a Bishop in the global Anglican Communion, died, March 13, in Lincoln, Massachusetts, following a hospitalization in Boston. She was 89. The Rt. Rev. […]