Lawsuit: ‘Fox peddled Trump’s Big Lie’
When Dominion Voting Systems filed a complaint in January and a lawsuit last week against Fox News Corporation, it came as no surprise to anyone …
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Selma’s Tabernacle Baptist receives preservation grant
$750,000 GRANT: For the site of the first mass meeting of the 1960s Voting Rights Movement. SELMA, Ala. (AP) – A historic Selma church that …
Super Bowl ads reminded the masses that Jesus ‘gets us’
Associated Press The religiously wary, the spiritually curious – and anyone inclined to appeal to a higher power on game day – were the target …
America and its killing fields
As a student at Detroit’s Central High School, I remember on occasion having mandatory fire drills. Today our children have mandatory gun drills. They are …
Divisions set in concrete, pavement
The racial divisions that have split our country for centuries don’t just live in people’s hearts and heads. Some of them exist in concrete and …
Celebrate Black History Month by educating ourselves…and our children
It is the middle of February, Black History Month, and I am feeling the squeeze. For the past 25 years I have planned exciting, fun-filled …
Church of England sheds light on ‘shameful’ slave trade ties
London (AP) – Three centuries ago, an enslaved person in Virginia wrote to a leader of the Church of England, begging to be released from …
2023 Theme: Black Resistance
Staff and wire reports Hip Hop’s 50th Anniversary NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Black PR Wire) – The National Museum of African American Music is joining in the …
W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies
The opening days of Black History Month 2023 have coincided with controversy about the teaching and broader meaning of African American studies. On Feb. 1, …
Return to community policing
It’s been over a week since Tyre Nichols was funeralized after his brutal murder at the hands of members of a special team of Memphis …