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History Is a Human Right

By Jesse Hagopian, Word in Black With almost half of all students in the United States attending a school whose educators have been given educational...

From the Civil War to Today’s Mattress Sales, Memorial Day is Full of Contradiction

By BEN FINLEY, Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come...

Ambassador Andrew Young Explains What Went Wrong with Voting and Civil Rights

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent The failure of lawmakers to get a current civil rights bill – the George Floyd Justice...

Hip Hop’s Legends Set to Get their Due at ‘Wild Style’ Anniversary

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent When the names Theodore Livingston and Tony Salas are mentioned in pop culture circles, they barely...

FBI Broke Rules in Scouring Foreign Intelligence on Jan. 6 Riot, Racial Justice Protests,...

By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for...

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