John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma,…
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The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and served as…
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Kenneth brought the newspaper into the age of digital technology and ushered in an era of a…
By Tribune News Service ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the…
By Tribune Staff Pianist, bandleader and composer McCoy Tyner, one of the finest and most influential modern jazz soloists and…
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Former U.S. Congressman John Conyers, whose 15-year fight to pass legislation that…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor-comedian John Witherspoon, who memorably played Ice Cube’s father in the “Friday” films, has died. He…
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) speaking at the National Press Club, August 2019. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) When Elijah Cummings died…
SACRAMENTO, CA — He was tireless in the fight for access and respect for Black journalists and relentless in championing…
PRINCETON, NJ — Over the past two decades, film and literary critic Kam Williams published nearly ten thousand articles and…