Politics

Houston’s 1st Black City Secretary

Patricia Jefferson Daniel has been selected to serve as the City Secretary in Houston, marking the first time an African American has been chosen for...

By African American News Editorial Staff
March 8, 2021

National, News, Politics

Criminal Justice

Hypocrisy at its finest: What a White man can get away with, a Black man would get lynched for half, and this “unspoken but well...

By African American News Editorial Staff
February 21, 2021

National, News, Politics

Who’s that Lady? Meet Stacey Plaskett

Not many people knew who Stacey E. Plaskett was before the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, but after the Congresswoman eloquently, but...

By African American News Editorial Staff
February 21, 2021

African American News & Issues, Columnists, Editorial, National, Opinion, Politics

COMMENTARY: Hitlerism: Trumpism

Republicans are sick and penicillin is not the cure, because they desire to live in an entirely White country. America was never a White country...

By African American News Editorial Staff
February 21, 2021

National, News, Politics

Breonna Taylor’s mother wants action, not political lip service

While President-elect Joe Biden is hard at work fulfilling promises he's made to America by bringing diversity to his cabinet, Breonna Taylor's mother is asking...

By African American News Editorial Staff
December 27, 2020

National, News, Politics

Trump attacks Black Vote

When Donald Trump asked Black Americans "What have you got to lose?" he should have been asking himself that as he surely found out what...

By African American News Editorial Staff
November 30, 2020

National, News, Politics

David Dinkins, New York’s 1st Black mayor, dies at 93

The first and only Black mayor of New York City, David Norman Dinkins, who worked tirelessly to improve race relations in the nation's largest city...