By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Maxine McNair, who was the last living parent of the four African American girls murdered in a 1963...
By: Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Legendary actor Sidney Poitier, who broke barriers and stood for justice and Black lives during the most tumultuous times of...
Without fear or favor, African-American News&Issues has not backed down from bringing you thought-provoking commentary and in-your-face breakdowns on national and local news. Here are...
We’ve lost a lot of the greats this year. With respect, we pay homage to all of those pioneers, trailblazers and notable figures who left...
Long before Nelson Mandela won his freedom from 27 years of imprisonment fighting apartheid in South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu earned the moniker “the nation’s...
Beloved poet, author, feminist and professor — bell hooks — has died at the age of 69. She passed away in her home after an...
By: Roy Douglas Malonson There’s been an increasing amount of conversation surrounding reparations for the Black American community and righting the economic injustices faced by...
The late-great Josephine Baker is well-known France and Europe, but never quite received her flowers while alive in America, where she was born. We know...
Wallace Bernard Jefferson (born July 22, 1963) is a former — and the first Black — chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who...
By Stacy M. Brown/ NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Two of the men found guilty of the assassination of Malcolm X are expected to have...
