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Month: August 2026
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Film Review: I Am Not Your Negro
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) James Baldwin, the intellectual, civil rights activist and renowned author, left behind some biting and enlightening words about racism and the status of the Black community that are […]
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Simone Biles Named AP Female Athlete of the Year
What’s the primary difference between good and great? Making the great attainable, a feat that is not easy, but absolutely possible. Why is it possible? Because movers and shakers like Simone Biles let us know […]
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Former Versace Store Clerk Sues Over Secret ‘Black code’ for Minority Shoppers
Photo credit by Versace/Instagram By Mary Papenfuss, The Huffington Post A former Versace employee is suing the luxury retail operation, accusing the fashion business of discrimination for its use of a secret “black code” to […]
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Commissioner: NBA Boycott of Trump’s White House Would be ‘a lost opportunity’
By Cindy Boren, washingtonpost.com Adam Silver, the commissioner of a league whose membership is about 75 percent African American, thinks it would be a mistake if NBA championship teams chose to boycott visits to the […]
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The Best Films of 2016
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) As we go forward, movies guide us. They give us directions. They motivate us. They provide rest stops, comic relief and flashbacks to the past. And they reassure […]
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Trump’s Pick for Secretary of Ed is Unqualified and Bad for Public Schools
“To the victor go the spoils” has been widely used for decades. Some attribute the term to Julius Caesar and others credit it to a New York Senator from the early 1800s. To simply state […]
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Why President Obama Will Never Get the Credit He Deserves
By Roger Caldwell In less than a month, real estate baron and reality TV star Donald J. Trump will be sworn-in as the 45th President of the United States of America. There is a reverence […]
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Women in Medicine Chronicled in “Against All Odds”
This holiday season people can give the gift that keeps on giving with “Against All Odds: Celebrating Black Women in Medicine.” The inspirational coffee-table book, by Crystal R. Emery, highlights the trailblazing careers of Black […]
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Michigan Acts to Provide Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted
Legislation that would provide compensation for the wrongfully convicted has passed the Michigan House of Representatives. People who are exonerated would receive $50,000 a year for every year they were incarcerated under one bill that […]