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Stevie Wonder’s Ghanaian citizenship reflects long-standing links between African Americans and the continent

Stevie Wonder. Getty Images by Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia There’s a long history of African Americans settling in Ghana or keeping in close contact with the...

On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on gentrification in Philly’s historically Black neighborhoods

The Mantua neighborhood in West Philadelphia is undergoing rapid gentrification. Jeff Fusco/The Conversation U.S., CC BY-NC-ND by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, University at Albany, State University of...

W.E.B. Du Bois’ study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ is still relevant 125 years later

A mural dedicated to Du Bois and the Old Seventh Ward is painted on the corner of 6th and South streets in Philadelphia. Paul Marotta/Getty...

In the worst of America’s Jim Crow era, Black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois found inspiration and hope in national parks

by Thomas S. Bremer, Rhodes College In his collection of essays and poems published in 1920 titled “Darkwater,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about his poignant...

The untold story of how Howard University came to be known as ‘The Mecca’

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim, University of Maryland If you ask just about anyone at Howard University what’s the other name for their school, they will readily...

Check It Out: Afro-pessimism and the ‘social death sentence’

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier During the first decade of the 20th century, W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington had a philosophical...

Just stop resisting

by Larry Smith “Don’t resist. Just comply with what the officer asks you to do.” Doing so seems like a simple and easy way to...

Blackonomics…White acceptance will never lead to wealth in the Black community

Black folks in America have been so successfully programmed that many of us are still psychologically enslaved to the point that we truly believe...

Dubois and Trotter: My civil rights heroes

(NNPA)—In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a W.E.B. DuBois fanatic since my teenage years in Tuscaloosa, Ala. I have a healthy...

Special Report: China Emerges from Shadow of the U.S.

STUDENTS GREET NNPA CHAIR--First grade students in Xi'an, China eagerly practice their English on NNPA Chairman Cloves Campbell, Jr. (Photo by Ann Ragland/NNPA)...

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