Author: NNPA

NNPA President and CEO Dr. Ben Chavis Jr. condemned the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, calling the charges an attack on press freedom and a dangerous misuse of the FACE Act and Ku Klux Klan Act. He compared the prosecutions to historic efforts to silence the Black Press and demanded all charges be dropped, asserting that democracy cannot survive when witnesses are criminalized.
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Four individuals, including independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, were arrested in connection with a coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, sparking outrage among journalists and media organizations who have called for their release.
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The Zinn Education Project offers free resources to help educators teach Black history with honesty and depth, connecting past struggles to present-day civil rights issues. From virtual workshops and study groups to lesson plans on systemic racism, the Constitution, and the fight for Black education, the project equips teachers to give students a fuller understanding of African American history and resistance.
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By William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove We don’t need better training for the men who killed these activists. We need a moral movement to disarm them and reconstruct democracy. From 1920 until 1938, a flag on Fifth Avenue in New York City proclaimed an uncomfortable reality to passers-by on New York’s busy streets: […]
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