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Warnock vs. Walker, Trump vs. DeSantis & What’s at Risk Moving Forward
By BlackPressUSA
Real Times Media’s Adell Henderson caught up with Chicago-based lobbyist and community activist Ashley M. Munson to discuss the current state of politics. The two jumped on camera...
COMMENTARY: Why ‘The Woman King’ Is Revolutionary
By Dr. Stephane Dunn and Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftal, Chicago Defender
Back in a 1974 review of the Bond-like Cleopatra Jones movie starring Tamara Dobson, Feminist and former...
How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism
By Eurie Dahn, The College of Saint Rose
Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly scream radicalism.
But in debates over racial...
OP-ED: The Black Press: Vanguards of Our History, Guardians of Our Future
By Nina Turner
For decades, the Black press has been the vanguards of the Black community’s history and the guardians of our future. They have...
Black Press of America Celebrates 193 Years of Freedom-Fighting Journalism
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent
From Freedom’s Journal to The North Star to John Abbott’s Chicago Defender, African American-owned newspapers have sparked fires for truth and equality that...