New Market? OK. But, Do You Get Paid?

This weekend, Civil War re-enactors are at Fort Harrison near Richmond Virginia,, commemorating the 145th Anniversary of the Battle of  New Market Heights, also known as Chaffin's Farm,  This battle has...

'Agents of Change' Receive 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom

In a ceremony held today in the East Room of the White House, President and Mrs. Obama participated in a ceremony for the 2009 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Obama presented the 2009...

FBI reopens cold cases from civil rights era

" Federal investigators are re-examining 43 decades-old unsolved killings in Mississippi during the civil rights years of the 1950s and ’60s. At least six of them are southwest Mississippi cases, the FBI announced Thursday. Among those cases is the Oct. 13,...

Black history program considered: Montreal, Quebec

Barry Artiste Op/EdBlack History, normally the domain of American Schools may finally be reaching Quebec Schools.Quebec's larger than most Black immigrant population from French speaking African and Haitian...

British Columbia's Black Pioneers

The story of Black settlers to Vancouver Island is rarely told.  Commodore Press will soon publish Go Do Some Great Thing:  The Black Pioneers of British Columbia which will help bring these stories into the public's imagination.The following is an excerpt from the...

America's Absolution and the Black Struggle

When Christians first came to the Americans, they were on a conquest to expand the old kingdoms of Europe. Kings and Queens from Portugal, Spain, France, and England to name a few, had all commissioned...

Jena, Louisiana - An American Summons To Take A Stroll Down History Lane (BFNN)

" While the recent events in Jena, Louisiana have caught the "momentary" attention of the world, perhaps America in general and black people of African descent in particular, should pause and take a stroll down history lane.  With a brief glimpse of history, America...

Why Slavery? (BFNN)

" Today's BFNN Headline S.C. Nash Quickens Run For National Baptist Convention Presidency With The Message: Why Slavery? (BFNN)"

Ideas have consequences - the 43rd anniversary of the Mississippi murders

"Born in 1952, I grew up in a small town in the South of the '50s and '60s. The state I grew up in, North Carolina, was generally seen as a "progressive" state, but it saw its not insignificant amount of "trouble" as African-Americans struggled to...

Black History Month; P.B. Randolph

"Paschal Beverly Randolph (P.B. Randolph) was a 19th Century magickian, a spiritualist and founder of the Rosicrucian movement in the United Sates. Like Paul Lafargue he was a mulatto but one who initially denied...

Dungy vs. Smith is the real feel-good story in Super Bowl

There were so many compelling story lines in the NFL playoffs this year, it's hard to choose the best. I loved that Jeff Garcia brought an Eagles team that looked doomed once McNabb went down storming into the first round. And Seattle survived an injury-riddled season to...

African-Americans and Jewish people will never forget the Black and Jewish ho...

"African-Americans and Jewish people will never forget the Black and Jewish holocausts." It appears you and others like you, justify American Slavery and Apartheid in South Africa as you probably justify the Jewish Holocaust. Actually, I feel sorry for you and those...

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