Category: EDITORIALS

By AARON MORRISON and KAT STAFFORD NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s oldest civil rights organization said it will propose a sweeping plan meant to protect Black Americans

“The kitchen don’t lie” was a saying I heard often during my childhood. In the 1950s in my part of Virginia, Saturday evenings saw a lot of African

By TOM HAYS and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame

From Acts 13:4 – 14:28, Dr. Luke is tracing the first Missionary Journey of Paul and Barnabas.  In this marvelous section of Acts chapter 13, we find Paul

Previous columns have discussed how important it is for your son to develop self-discipline. In fact, the development of self-discipline is so important that this subject will continue

Daniel Alexander was enslaved when he founded a farm before the Civil War. 175 years later, his family is fighting to keep it intact as Texas plans to

By JAMIE STENGLE FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Opal Lee’s dream of seeing Juneteenth become a federal holiday was finally realized over the summer, but the energetic woman who spent

By LYNN ELBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband’s Oscar-night blow up into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., helped to eulogize the Challenger

Marcel Verdier’s 1840s painting, “Punishment of the Four Stakes/Pegs in the Colonies,” depicts an enslaved Black man, staked naked and spread-eagle face down on the ground as he