Forty-four days late, justice finally showed up for Trayvon Martin and his family. Florida Special Prosecutor Angela B. Corey announced yesterday that she will charge George Zimmerman with second-degree murder for the shooting death of the unarmed teenager on February 26 in Sanford, Florida.

This week marks the 47th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," the violent assault by Alabama police and state troopers on peaceful Civil Rights marchers seeking voting rights for black Americans. Yet, even as that landmark event in Selma is recalled in a symbolic repeat of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a national voter suppression campaign is creeping across the land, through actions by some state legislatures.

Black History Month is a time to reflect on how far we have come as a people and all we have left to do. As President Obama has said, it is "a story of resilience and perseverance."

Black farmers in the United States are disappearing. Their numbers shrank from approximately 900,000 in the 1920s down to about 43,000 in the last U.S. Census -- down to less than 1 percent of America's farmers.

When President Barack Obama signed a $1.25-billion bill that would fund a settlement between the Agriculture Department and Black farmers who were discriminated against in December of 2010, Boyd knew the battle had reached an important milestone but was not over.

Some of the Republicans vying for their party's presidential nomination have contracted a disease that can best be called "black tongue disease." Whether they are sending subtle or coded messages to white voters, or simply displaying commonplace racist attitudes, these candidates clearly appear afflicted with the age-old American condition of racism. The pattern is not hard to see.

The Kings Landing Women’s Service Club will hold its 37th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast on Monday, January 16, 2012 at Martin’s West, 6817 Dogwood Road, Woodlawn, MD.

My name is John Boyd and I am the great grandson of a slave and the grandson of a sharecropper.

The Roanoke Branch NAACP held its 61st Life Membership Luncheon and Freedom Fund-raiser Saturday, Dec 3 at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center.

A 30-year fight against discrimination culminated with a billion dollar settlement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the nation's black farmers. Friday, a central figure in that struggle urged Roanoke students to "never give up."

The U.S. District Court approved a settlement in the ongoing saga between Black farmers and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) providing an additional $1.2 billion for thousands of plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit.

Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott issued the following statement on today's approval by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of the settlement between the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and plaintiffs in the Pigford II class action lawsuit.

United States Senator Kay R. Hagan (NC) today praised the U.S. District Court’s approval of the settlement between the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the African American Farmers who filed the PigfordII lawsuit.

A decade-long effort to compensate black farmers who suffered discrimination at the hands of U.S. government is nearing completion. A federal judge Thursday approved a $1.25 billion settlement of the case.

John Boyd President of the National Black Farmers Association Released the Following Statement on the signing of the US Trade Agreements with Korea, Columbia and Panama

President Obama recently challenged members of the Congressional Black Caucus to stop crying and to remove their bedroom slippers. "We have work to do," he said. Obama is right. It is past time to take action to put Americans back to work. And an economic recovery plan must include rural America.

John W. Boyd, Jr., founder, and president of the National Black Farmers Association released the following statement this morning on the passing of Elouise Cobell.

Decades of litigation over racial bias at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are nearing an end as a federal judge prepares to decide whether to grant final approval to a $1.25 billion settlement for thousands of black farmers.

Is presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) attack on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) settlement with African American farmers racist? Bachmann is coming under increasing fire for characterizing a settlement to black farmers who were discriminated against as mass “fraud.”

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann pointed to one program in particular Monday when talking about wasteful government spending: a multibillion dollar settlement paid to black farmers, who claim the federal government discriminated against them for decades in awarding loans and other aid.