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COMMENTARY: “Grateful After the November Mid-Term Results
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COMMENTARY: “Grateful After the November Mid-Term Results

Ben JealousDecember 8, 2022

To further resist the threat of authoritarianism, we must lift up young leaders who will be democracy’s champions for this and future generations. People For the American Way’s Young Elected Officials Network is celebrating the election of young leaders as new members of Congress from across the country: Greg Casar from Austin, Texas; Emilia Sykes from Akron, Ohio; Maxwell Frost from Orlando, Fla.; Summer Lee from Braddock, Pa.; Robert Garcia from Long Beach, Calif.; Sydney Kamlager from Los Angeles, Calif; and Jasmine Crockett from Dallas, Texas. Dozens more were elected to local and state offices, building a crucial leadership pipeline.

Soul Source LA Creates Promotes Self-Expression
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Soul Source LA Creates Promotes Self-Expression

Mary Bushee, Contributing WriterApril 14, 2022

Soul Source LA is an event curated by Eric Carter Chu, better known in the DJ realm as “its.blksoap.” The inspiration for Soul Source LA is to create a safe space that promotes freedom and self expression for dancers and deejays.

GOP Looks to Discourage Race Theory, Help Right-Wing Talkers
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GOP Looks to Discourage Race Theory, Help Right-Wing Talkers

Todd Richmond, Associated PressMarch 3, 2022

Republican legislators are setting their sights on the University of Wisconsin System, scheduling votes Tuesday on contentious bills that look destined for vetoes but will give the GOP talking points on the campaign trail heading into the November election.

Talk Freedom to the People: Framing Our Future in Struggle
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Talk Freedom to the People: Framing Our Future in Struggle

Dr. Maulana KarengaSeptember 30, 2021

As we of the Organization Us closeout a month-long celebration of our 56th anniversary, I want to reshare with you an article I previously wrote concerning the praise and practice of freedom. For it is in the five broad areas of our liberation struggle, i.e., education, mobilization, organization, confrontation and transformation, that freedom is liberating and liberated ground on which we stand.

Telling and Taking Back Tulsa: Resisting Erasure and Americana Appropriation
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Telling and Taking Back Tulsa: Resisting Erasure and Americana Appropriation

Dr. Maulana KarengaJune 3, 2021

This current focus of the country on this horrendous act of racist terrorism, massacre and mayhem and destruction imposed and inflicted on the Black people of Tulsa, May 31-June 1, does not come as an expression of required contrition after a century of concealment and denial. Rather, it comes as a result of the long difficult, dangerous, deadly and demanding struggle by Black people for freedom, justice and equity in this country.

African Author Pens Children’s Book About Diversity in Skin Tones
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African Author Pens Children’s Book About Diversity in Skin Tones

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentMay 27, 2021

“My father was a man of humble beginnings who worked hard to provide for eight children,” said author Nonkululeko Kunene Adumentey, adding that it was his conditional love, wisdom, and work ethic that inspired the core of her principles and life mottos. He also inspired her to appreciate the various skin tones found in Africans throughout the world.

NNPA President and CEO Dr. Ben Chavis Named Among 100 Most Influential Blacks Today
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NNPA President and CEO Dr. Ben Chavis Named Among 100 Most Influential Blacks Today

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentFebruary 11, 2021

The CORE 100 honorees, which include changemakers like Stacey Abrams, Attorney Ben Crump, NBA superstar LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, mark and remind the world of the beauty, boldness, and brilliance of Black Excellence at a time when the cultural, economic, and political landscape in the United States has grown increasingly more hostile towards Blackness.