Tag: New York
Action Fund Joins Knight Foundation to Create Sojourner Truth Memorial
NNPA Newswire
Sojourner Truth delivered what has come to be known as her greatest speech on May 29, 1851, at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention...
Ghana President Heralds Historic Agreement to Build A World-Class W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Complex
By NNPA
H.E. Nàna Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana, heralded plans to construct a state-of-the-art museum complex honoring the legacy of...
George Floyd Memorial Statue in New York City Defaced Again
By The Associated Press
A statue honoring George Floyd in New York City's Union Square Park was vandalized on Sunday, October 2, police said.
According...
Met Returns With 1st Work By A Black Composer In Its History
By Ronald Blum, Associated Press
"We bend, we don't break. We sway!" sings the chorus in the second act of Terence Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up...
After his Conviction, R. Kelly Faces Life in Prison and More Trials
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire
He has sung, performed, and wrote many hits, but Robert Sylvester Kelly will now sing a new tune: perhaps...
