[AJ+] Amirah Sackett and her female Muslim dance group, We’re Muslim Don’t Panic, spread their hip-hop all over the country to address misconceptions about Muslim women. Watch more videos from AJ+ on YouTube.com.
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My friend of over 15 years recently made the decision it was time for her and her mother to live together again. After her father died, [read more…]
[BLACKENTERPRISE.COM] Detroit leaders and organizations are working with JPMorgan Chase to deploy the bank’s $100 million commitment in various ways that are advancing the city’s priorities when it comes to helping startups and minority-owned businesses [read more…]
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dylann Roof, the unrepentant racist who killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. is, without question, a monster. He prayed with people before [read more…]
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. (Founder and President of Rainbow PUSH Coalition) America is literally falling apart. In Flint, Mich., children were poisoned by the lead contamination of the water. In Washington, D.C., the subway [read more…]
By Jeffrey L. Boney (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I’m about to be extremely facetious! We’re Black, right? We all like a “hook-up” on something every now and then, don’t we? Well, it seems as if [read more…]
By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose admitted that she questioned why Mark Wolper, the son of the producer of the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries “Roots,” would ever [read more…]
By Joan H. Allen (Associate Publisher, Daily Challenge) The Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, which honors outstanding dance and choreography on stage and screen, recently announced the 2016 winners and presented special awards on Monday, [read more…]
[THEROOT.COM] Cassandra Quin Butts, the former Deputy White House Counsel and nominee to the Ambassadorship to the Bahamas, died suddenly on Thursday. She was 50 years old. A statement from Butts’ family says that she [read more…]
By Marc Morial (President and CEO of the National Urban League) “Don’t just give us money, and don’t just show up for the Equal Opportunity Day dinner. That is not enough when you look at [read more…]
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