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By A. Peter Bailey In a 2020 column published in The Washington Informer and several other Black newspapers, my headline stated that Black folks should...
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By A. Peter Bailey In a 2020 column published in The Washington Informer and several other Black newspapers, my headline stated that Black folks should...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The original March on Washington, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement, drew approximately 250,000 participants in 1963. Its influence paved...
By Perry Bacon Jr. I’m currently a “none” or, more precisely, a “nothing in particular.” But I want to be a something. “None” is...
By Contributing Writer The memes, the reenactments, the folding chair earrings! In the aftermath of the Alabama Brawl, Black America has had a lighthearted...
By Vincent L. Hall “What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t have...
By WI Web Editor and A. Peter Bailey For over 50 years millions of Black people in this country have held commemoration events on the days Brother...
New book explores a new movement
By Oakland Post Twenty-five high school age students and staff of the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center in Oakland spent the day in...
By Marian Wright Edelman April 4 was the 54th anniversary of the assassination of our nation’s prophet of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
THE CHICAGO DEFENDER — John Lewis was 25 when he marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten by state...