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Opal Lee, left, applauds during a ceremony before raising the first wall to her new home on her family's former lot in Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday, March 21, 2024. Lee, one of the driving forces behind Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, attended a ceremony to watch as the walls are raised on new home. In 1939, a racist mob drove her family out of their home. Photo credit: Amanda McCoy , Star-Telegram via The Associated Press

National

85 years after a racist mob drove Opal Lee’s family away, the Juneteenth advocate is getting a new home on the same spot

March 26, 2024
By Melanie Eversley
NABJ Black News & Views

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The public artwork “Shadow Lines,” by artists Shane Allbritton and Norman Lee, will be dedicated March 26 at Martyrs Park, located just west of the Sixth Floor Museum in downtown Dallas. Photo credit: Juan Figueroa, Texas Metro News

Arts & culture

PERSPECTIVE: Dallas memorializes lynching site near spot of Kennedy assassination

March 25, 2024
By Sharon Grigsby
Texas Metro News

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Then-Vice President Joe Biden and late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, March 3, 2013. Photo credit: Dave Martin, The Associated Press

Politics

PERSPECTIVE: On anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday,’ those continuing John Lewis’ legacy ask Biden to keep faith in ‘State of the Union’

March 7, 2024
By Melanie Eversley
NABJ Black News & Views

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Two girls look out the window of a Freedom School. Photo credit: Ken Thompson, United Methodist Board of Global Ministries

National

As Florida blocks Black history education, parents, allies turn to Black churches, resurrection of Freedom Schools

February 29, 2024
By Fern Gillespie
Our Time Media

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Khaleel Sultarn Sayyed, center, a member of Malcolm X's security detail, Malcolm X's daughter Ilyasah Shabazz, left, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, right, and others stand in the Audubon Ballroom, now part of The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, where the civil rights leader was shot to death 59 years ago, in New York, on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Photo credit: Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press

National

Two allege authorities arrested them to stop them from protecting Malcolm X

February 23, 2024
By Melanie Eversley
NABJ Black News & Views

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South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor, center, leaves the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. The United Nations' top court has stopped short of ordering a cease-fire in Gaza has demanded that Israel try to contain death and damage in its military offensive in the tiny coastal enclave. South Africa brought the case and asked the court to order Israel to halt its operation. Photo credit: Patrick Post, The Associated Press

Global

UN court keeps South Africa’s genocide case against Israel alive as Gaza death toll surpasses 26,000

January 26, 2024
By Melanie Eversley
NABJ Black News & Views

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