By STACY M. BROWN NNPA It is a story that, until now, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. had reserved only for a forthcoming memoir about the true story of the legendary Wilmington 10, […]
By HOLLIE SILVERMAN and STEPHANIE ELAM CNN NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Country music legend Charley Pride died Saturday at age 86, a representative for the singer announced. Pride died in Dallas of complications from […]
The Dallas Examiner On June 19, 1865, approximately 250,000 enslaved African Americans began learning that they were free. Moreover, they learned that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, […]
Special to The Dallas Examiner The city of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture received a $50,000 grant from the National Park Service to research and interpret the historic legacy of the Hall […]
By LAUREN VICTORIA BURKE NNPA Katherine Johnson, the legendary NASA physicist and mathematician whose work played a key role in the early successes of the U.S. space program, passed away at 101 years […]
Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial before his I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. – AP file photos The […]
By GARY BLEDSOE Texas NAACP – ANALYSIS – Last month many in our nation celebrated Constitution Day. It is without question that our Constitution has provided an avenue for much of the progress […]
The Dallas Examiner From the booming riffs of her gospel-inspired singing to her heart bursting lyrics, Aretha Louise Franklin has captivated the nation with her music that even former president Barack Obama claimed had “defined […]
The Dallas Examiner Juneteenth was celebrated early in a sense when Dr. George Keaton Jr., the founder of Remembering Black Dallas Inc., hosted a busload of history buffs and the curious on his inaugural Freedman’s […]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.(AP) – A historic North Carolina women’s college has apologized for having once owned slaves. The Winston-Salem Journal reported a research report released April 27 showed Salem Academy and College owned slaves who worked […]
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