Week In Review

By Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle The heinous June 17 massacre of nine African American worshippers at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston by a white supremacist spewing hatred for Blacks has spawned a renewed demand for removal of the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. But surprisingly,…

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By Seanna Adcox, Jeffrey Collins and Meg Kinnard ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C.  — Pressure on South Carolina Republicans to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds grew on Monday, days after a young white man who embraced the banner as a symbol of white power was charged with murdering nine people inside their historic…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  South Carolina Highway Patrol honor guard stand over Sen. Clementa Pinckney’s body as members of the public file past in the Statehouse, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. President Barack Obama was scheduled to deliver the eulogy at Pinckney’s funeral Friday morning at the College of Charleston.  (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)   By Seanna…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A man kneels across the street from where police gather outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (Wade Spees/The Post And Courier via AP) By Alex Sanz and Russ Bynum associated press CHARLESTON, S.C.–The suspect in a mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine…

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washington post Nine black church congregants were killed by a white shooter last night in Charleston, S.C., a shocking event that local police are characterizing as a hate crime. Below are several pieces of critical context on hate crimes and hate groups from the Southern Poverty Law Center, the FBI and other sources. While the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Deric Muhammad addresses youth during Smart’N Up Black Male Summit 2015.  (Photo by Marc D. Simon/Final Call) By Charlene Muhammad The Final Call LOS ANGELES – Black men in America face high unemployment, mass incarceration, and homelessness, yet they defy those odds every day to be good fathers to their children and do good in…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Protestors march Monday, June 8, 2015, during a demonstration  in response to an incident at a community pool involving McKinney police officers  in McKinney, Texas. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins) By David Warren and Terry Wallace Associated Press MCKINNEY, Texas — A white police officer recorded on video pushing a black girl to the ground…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this screen grab, Ofc. Michael Slager takes aim at Walter Scott as he flees from his car.  (Photo: video screen grab) By Bruce Smith Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — It didn’t take long for a grand jury in South Carolina to indict a white former city policeman for murder in the shooting…

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Convention to unite thousands of social justice activists around voting rights, criminal justice reform, economic opportunity, health equity and education equality BALTIMORE, MD– From July 11th to the 15th, the NAACP will host its 106th Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA.  This year’s convention theme is “Pursuing Liberty In the Face of Injustice.” In the wake…

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By Mark Sherman Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court strengthened civil rights protections Monday for employees and job applicants who need special treatment in the workplace because of their religious beliefs. The justices sided with a Muslim woman who did not get hired after she showed up to a job interview with clothing retailer…

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