By Frank Dobson, The Conversation On Dec. 26, millions throughout the world’s African community will start weeklong celebrations of Kwanzaa. There will be daily ceremonies with food, decorations and other cultural objects, such as the kinara, which holds seven candles. At many Kwanzaa ceremonies, there is also African drumming and dancing. It is a time […]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA – June 19th, 2021: African American community members of Milwaukee held a parade to celebrate Juneteenth holiday. (Shutterstock) By Sydney Combs, National Geographic Known to some as the country’s “second Independence Day,” Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of enslaved people in the United States at the end of the Civil War. For more […]
Philadelphia, PA / USA – June 22 2019: Juneteenth Parade Philadelphia at Malcom X Park African American Independence Day. (Shutterstock) By Kris Manjapra, The Conversation The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were […]
Georgia Congressman John Lewis waves at the 50th Anniversary of the march on Washington and Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream Speech, August 24, 2013, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. (Shutterstock) By Barrett Holmes Pitner, BBC “Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already […]
U.S. Representative John Lewis poses for a photo at Black Lives Matter plaza in Washington DC – Washington DC, USA – June 6,2020 (Shutterstock) By BBC Tributes have been paid to civil rights activist John Lewis, who has died at the age of 80. Lewis was a Congressman, which is a very important political position […]
John Lewis Memorial on Digital Screen in New York’s Times Square – New York, NY / USA – July 17, 2020 (Shutterstock) By BBC Rep John Lewis, a leader in the civil rights movement and later US congressman, has died at the age of 80. Lewis was one of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders, […]
By PBS.org Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too Ñ great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such […]
Protesters and protest signs at the Black Lives Matter protest in Washington, D.C. in June 2020 – Washington, D.C./United States of America – June 7, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Maribel Hastings and David Torres The United States is being stalked by different scourges: the coronavirus pandemic and its resulting economic crisis; the political violence against African […]
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor, The Baltimore Times With the coronavirus death toll passing 50,000 during the last week in April, black leaders in the U.S. have taken to warning their communities of the danger of opening the country back up too soon. The coronavirus has devastated the black community in Detroit and […]