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Political Prisoners: America’s Most Wanted
by Eric Ture Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Targeting Assata Shakur, the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list and the secret shame of political prisoners inside the United States of...
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The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision ‘Made Me Want to Cry’
By Rep. John Lewis NNPA Guest Columnist [Rep. John Lewis’ testimony July 17, 2013 before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Shelby v. Holder...
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When Cops Hide Behind Badge to Kill Blacks
Ruby Sales, civil rights activist and founder of The SpiritHouse Project. By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1965, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama was a hotbed for...
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LBJ Doesn’t Deserve Credit for Selma
By Diane Nash NNPA Guest Columnist Joseph Califano’s statement that Selma was Lyndon B. Johnson’s idea is patently false. Although the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had come to...
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Black Youth Leading the Way in This Modern Day Movement
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Imagine being a young teenager and deciding to participate in a serious march that you hoped would shed light on the injustices...
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9 HBCU Students Just Made the Voter-ID War Hot Again
Members of the Nashville Student Organizing Committee at the Tennessee Capitol with a message that voter-ID laws silence students’ voices, March 25, 2014, in Nashville. (Courtesy of Nashville Student...
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Allies of US Civil Rights Victim Reflect 50 Years Later
In this Aug. 24, 1965, file photo, Connie Daniels, right, mother of Jonathan Daniels, the young seminarian and civil rights worker slain in Hayneville, Ala., arrives at a church in Keene, N.H., to...
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Julian Bond Praised for Unselfish Devotion to Human Rights
Julian Bond (Photo by Freddie Allen/NNPA) By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent...
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Amelia Boynton Remembered as the ‘Rosa Parks’ of Selma Movement
Boynton, in wheelchair next to President Obama, at 50th anniversary celebration of the Selma to Montgomery March (Photo by Stephonia Taylor McLinn) By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON...
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Political Prisoners: America’s Most Wanted
by Eric Ture Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Targeting Assata Shakur, the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list and the secret shame of political prisoners inside the United States of...
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The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision ‘Made Me Want to Cry’
By Rep. John Lewis NNPA Guest Columnist [Rep. John Lewis’ testimony July 17, 2013 before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Shelby v. Holder...
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When Cops Hide Behind Badge to Kill Blacks
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1965, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama was a hotbed for social protest and bred students passionate about equality, justice and civil...
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LBJ Doesn’t Deserve Credit for Selma
By Diane Nash NNPA Guest Columnist Joseph Califano’s statement that Selma was Lyndon B. Johnson’s idea is patently false. Although the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had come to...
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Black Youth Leading the Way in This Modern Day Movement
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Imagine being a young teenager and deciding to participate in a serious march that you hoped would shed light on the injustices...
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9 HBCU Students Just Made the Voter-ID War Hot Again
(The Root) – The voter-ID war just opened up a huge new front. This time in Tennessee. A group of nine students from HBCUs Fisk and Tennessee State have filed a federal lawsuit against the Volunteer...
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Allies of US Civil Rights Victim Reflect 50 Years Later
RIK STEVENS, Associated Press KEENE, New Hampshire (AP) — Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in the southern state of Alabama, the people who stood with him...
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Julian Bond Praised for Unselfish Devotion to Human Rights
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and immediate...
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Amelia Boynton Remembered as the ‘Rosa Parks’ of Selma Movement
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Amelia Boynton Robinson, who died Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala. at the age of 104, is being praised as the ‘Rosa Parks’ of the Selma voting...
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COMMENTARY: The DNC is a Ball of Confusion
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Hillary appears to be out of the picture – at last! With that being the case, then who is in contention for the presidential nomination in 2020? Who is going to stand up face to face...
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IN MEMORIAM: John Lewis, an American Hero and Moral Leader Alongside Martin...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The 1965 Selma march was led by John Lewis. Lewis was perhaps the last remaining voice of moral authority from the civil rights era. Voting rights remains a challenge in the U.S. Lewis...
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