By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent NNPA News Wire When presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) met with a group of Black civic and religious leaders in Baltimore, Md., Jamal Bryant, the pastor and founder of Empowerment Temple Church said that it was critical for the senator to have a conversation with those who are the […]
Unrest Sows Seeds for Future Leaders, Opens Eyes of Youth
By Richard B. Muhammad June 5, 2015 Jerome Lyles,15, wants effort for justice to keeping going. Photos: Richard B. Muhammad Richard B. Muhammad is Special to the NNPA from The Final Call. BALTIMORE, MD – Unrest in a city known yesterday for crab cakes, row houses, marble steps, downtown tourist spots […]
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The Waco Biker Riot and the Lexicon of Racism
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist June 5, 2015 Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist Question: When men (and a few women) belonging to gangs known to law enforcement agencies for criminal behavior explode in a rampage – using guns, knives, clubs, and chains in trying to kill each other, and police officers, […]
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Seeing and Not Seeing Our Racial Reality
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist May 22, 2015 Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist “Americans don’t want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing racist reality. We like to look at racism as a thing that has gotten better (if not gone away completely) and that the way black […]
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Baltimore: We Have Been Here Before
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., NNPA Columnist May 8, 2015 Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., NNPA Columnist Now it is Baltimore. There Freddie Gray, a Black man, was stopped on the street, pinned to the ground, dragged to the back of a police wagon, and died in police custody. Six officers were suspended. […]