NIGERIAN ‘SLAVERY MONUMENT’ DEMOLISHED BY DEVELOPERS
A living monument to Nigeria’s slave trade past was destroyed this month by developers of Lagos Island – the site of a wave of new luxury homes built in recent years. […]
Month: January 2017
African Athletes In U.S. Teams Face Uncertainty Under New Trump Bills
Iran, one of the seven countries listed on the ban, brought one archer, Zahra Nemati, to last year’s Olympics. The status of Iran’s archery team for the World Cup is not known. […]
Morocco Re Joins The African Union, Ending A 33 Year Boycott
Morocco left the AU’s predecessor (the Organization for African Unity) in 1984 protesting the body’s recognition of Western Sahara’s independence. […]
African Union Blasts Trump Rule Barring African Muslim Immigrants
An outraged African Union recalled the kidnapping of Black Africans as it considered the controversial new US anti-immigrant rules. After forcibly bringing Africans to the U.S. as slave labor […]
Freed after serving 30 years of wrongful conviction and death sentence
Anthony Ray is LINC 3rd Annual Milestones Dinner Keynote Speaker BY KIMBERLY COOK, PHD CONTRIBUTING WRITER “The sun does shine,” was one of the first things Anthony Ray Hinton said when he was exonerated […]
The National Black Church Initiative salutes the Women’s March for Democracy and Inclusion
This is the only thing that will make America Great Washington, DC – The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a faith-based coalition of 34,000 churches comprised of 15 denominations and 15.7 million African Americans, salutes […]
CASH IN THE APPLE: Doubting Trump
BY CASH MICHAELS OF THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL As we head toward the inauguration of our nation’s 45th president, despite the troubling questions that surround him, there are those who question that despite our many, many […]
NNPA’s Chavis Receives Promise of First Press Interview with President Trump
Move would signal departure from Obama years of ignoring requests from Black newspaper reporters […]
OUR VOICE, GUEST EDITORIAL, Moral courage: standing up for what is right
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Even a superficial look at history reveals that no social advance rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. Every step towards the goal of justice requires […]
New Ghanaian Leader Slips Up At Swearing-in
Ex-president Mahama maintains that the terms of retirement were all agreed upon early in December. In addition to two “bungalows” (luxurious houses) for his home and his office […]