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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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Arts & culture

‘They were obsessed with ice cream,’ and other tidbits filmmakers of dual biography ‘Genius: MLK/X’ learned about Martin Luther King and Malcolm X

February 8, 2024
By Carla Hay
NABJ Black News & Views

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Students walk through a gate at Harvard University Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. Photo credit: Michael Casey, The Associated Press.

National

Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling challenge legacy admissions at Harvard

July 5, 2023
By Collin Binkley
The Associated Press

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Civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump implored graduating students on Saturday at Morgan State University in Baltimore to share the gifts they've received to make change. Photo credit: Morgan State University

National

Civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump tells Morgan State graduates to use their gifts to make change

May 22, 2023
By Zoe Earle
NABJ Black News & Views

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This 1955 file photo shows then former Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 died April 25 in hospice care in Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana. She was 88. Photo credit: Gene Herrick, The Associated Press

National

Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies

April 27, 2023
By Emily Wagster Pettus
The Associated Press

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Vice President Joe Biden and late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., March 3, 2013. On Sunday, March 5, 2023, Biden is set to pay tribute to the heroes of “Blood Sunday," joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement that led to passage of landmark voting rights legislation nearly 60 years ago. Photo credit: Dave Martin, The Associated Press

National

Biden’s Selma visit puts spotlight on voting rights

March 5, 2023
By Kim Chandler and Aamer Madhani
The Associated Press

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