By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia That Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris announced her candidate for president on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is no coincidence. For her supporters and those who know her well, Harris has long been a fighter for freedom, justice and equality and she’s often invoked the spirit […]
Japanese Internment Camp Survivors Decry Presidential Campaign Rhetoric
Speakers Warn Central Wisconsin Students Not To Let History Repeat Itself by Glen Moberg An acclaimed central Wisconsin school history program took a political turn this past week when survivors of World War II Japanese-American internment camps warned students about the rhetoric in this year’s presidential campaign. The Walk in Their Shoes program brought the […]
Sanders Campaign Still Lagging in Black America
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The emergence of the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has reached the scale of “phenomenal.” What many mainstream pundits originally believed to have been a marginal effort, exploded around the U.S. as enthusiastic crowds responded to Sanders’s challenges to contemporary capitalism. Yet in Black America, the campaign […]