A Black Democratic candidate for president faces a frustrating double standard that does not apply to a white Republican like Trump (Photo Credit: Gage...
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by Tobin Miller Shearer, University of Montana
Fifty-eight years ago in the...
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By Keith Boykin
“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word...
JAM MASTER JAY
October 25
1940—The Black newspaper owners group—the NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) is founded.
1940—Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first Black general...