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Door of No Return: Yellen visits Onetime Slave-Trading Post

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an...

The Most Overlooked Music Venue in America

By David Wilfong, North Dallas Gazette Contributing Writer Music has a history. Choose your favorite artist, and chances are you can find the subtle hints...

Plans to Unveil a Bust of Marcus Garvey in Ethiopia Revealed

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once called Marcus Garvey the first “man on a mass scale...

OP-ED: Celebrating the Journey of Black Music and its impact on American Culture

By H. Beecher Hicks, III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music Lately, the phrase ‘unprecedented times’ is so widely used...