By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com When the secretary for the Montgomery, Alabama chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott, an effort that changed the trajectory […]
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THE RUN DOWN – PRESIDENT TRUMP IMPEACHMENT CONTINUES
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green talks about Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of 7 impeachment managers to prosecute the impeachment trial of President Trump and trending topics in The AFRO American News Paper.
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Longtime Political Cartoonist Ron Rogers Dies at 65, Former Chronicle Staffer
RICHMOND, VA — Ron Rogers, political cartoonist for The Chronicle of Winston-Salem, died Jan. 7, 2020, after a sudden illness. He was 65. Rogers was an award-winning political cartoonist, illustrator, graphic artist and designer. He was considered the first Black political cartoonist at a daily newspaper when he worked at the South Bend Tribune in […]
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NNPA Urges Better U.S.-Cuba Relations
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The majority of the people of the United States want better relations with Cuba, and that is the will that must prevail,” stated Chavis, who counted among the delegation of 30 American scholars who attended the 18th edition of the Series of Academic Conversations on Cuba in the Foreign Policy of the […]
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Sixties’ Freedom Rider to Keynote MLK Day Event
By The Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A woman who was among the “Freedom Riders” who challenged racial segregation in the 1960s will be the keynote speaker at a breakfast in Cincinnati honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center says Betty Daniels Rosemond will speak Monday at the […]
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Future of Historic African American School in Jeopardy
By RICKEY CIAPHA DENNIS JR., The Post and Courier MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — It was expected to be the beginning of a joyous preservation effort: relocating the town’s last standing African American school. But blocked by fumbled permits and mired in controversy, the effort failed. Plans to preserve the Long Point School have raised […]
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Dallas Examiner Publisher Mollie Belt to Receive NNPA Lifetime Achievement Award
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It is with great pleasure that the NNPA Executive Committee has selected Mollie Belt for the honor of the Publishers Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the NNPA for so many years,” stated NNPA National Chair and Houston Forward Times Publisher Karen Carter Richards. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior […]
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Buttigieg Decision on Police Chief Shadows Presidential Run
By MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Karen DePaepe had been waiting all day for a call back from Pete Buttigieg. It was March 2012, and the 30-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had just decided to replace the city’s first African American police chief over complaints he illegally wiretapped police […]
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Joe Biden Boosts Super Tuesday Case With Sewell Endorsement
By BILL BARROW, Associated Press Joe Biden has secured a weighty Deep South endorsement for his presidential campaign, with Alabama’s lone Democratic House member on Friday announcing her support for the former vice president. Terri Sewell marks Biden’s 11th endorsement from the Congressional Black Caucus, far outpacing any other Democratic White House hopeful. Sewell also […]
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A Look at Expected Participants in Virginia Gun Rally
By SARAH RANKIN, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State officials and U.S. hate-monitoring groups are warning about the potential for violence ahead of a gun-rights rally in Virginia that’s expected to draw a mix of militias, firearms advocates and White supremacists to Richmond. Citing credible threats of violence, Gov. Ralph Northam declared a temporary […]
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Multiracial Churches Growing, Challenge for Clergy of Color
By ADELLE M. BANKS, Religion News Service KELLER, Texas (RNS) — For four hours at a megachurch outside of Dallas, pastors of color shared their personal stories of leading a multiethnic church. One, a lead pastor of a Southern Baptist congregation in Salt Lake City, recalled the “honest conversations” he had with his 10-member leadership […]
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Trump’s Black Voter Outreach Looks in Part to the Pews
By ELANA SCHOR, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In the eight years since he became a pastor at First Immanuel Baptist Church, Todd Johnson says he’s seen his congregation’s politics make a subtle shift. The Philadelphia church, which recently hosted a Donald Trump campaign event reaching out to Black voters, has “more people now who […]
