BlackPressUSA Newswire

Film Review: The Birth of a Nation

This Is Why Black Americans Must Demand Equality in the Auto Industry

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) There are nearly 47 million Black Americans living in the United States that have...

Ask Alma: I Offered to Relax My Sister-In-Law’s Natural Hair and Now She’s Mad at Me

By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, Recently, my brother relocated to where I live and my sister-in-law and I have become better friends....

LIVESTREAM: 2016 Rainbow Push Coalition Global Auto Summit

PRESS ROOM: Hyundai Hope on Wheels Announces Winners of $7.5 Million in Pediatric Cancer Research Grant Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hyundai Hope on Wheels Announces Winners of $7.5 Million in Pediatric Cancer Research Grant Awards During National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Efforts build...

PRESS ROOM: Minister Louis Farrakhan Says President Obama Should Pardon Marcus Garvey

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Minister Louis Farrakhan Says President Obama Should Pardon Marcus Garvey Contact: Richard B. Muhammad The Final Call Newspaper Phone: (312) 480 9775 E-mail:...

Love Him or Hate Him, Donald Trump Has Transformed Politics Forever

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As my readers know, I don’t pay much attention to polls. I think they are a total waste of time...

Blackonomics: What the Kaepernick Protest Tells Us about Black Power and Money

By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Turnabout is fair play. Why can’t more of us see that economics is the key to our freedom and the...

Three Things The CFBP Has to Get Right When It Comes to Debt Collection

By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) When it comes to consumer complaints on credit and lending, debt collection generates more criticism than any other industry. This...

Citizen Newspaper Publisher William Garth, Sr. Dies at 79

By Lisette Gushiniere (Chicago Citizen Newspaper Group, NNPA Member) William Garth, Sr., the CEO of the Chicago Citizen Newspaper Group Inc., (CCNG) and Chairman of the...

Managing Pain and Opioid Addiction in the Black Community

By Patricia Maryland, Dr.PH (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) As America grapples with prescription opioid addiction, an epidemic shattering communities across our nation, healthcare providers face a...

Changing America’s Narrative: The New Black History Museum Opens on the National Mall

By Marian Wright-Edelman (President, Children’s Defense Fund) “In the shadow of the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the King Memorial, and the front yard of the...

Keith Lamont Scott Video Footage Too Little Too Late

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Keith Lamont Scott was killed by a police officer on Tuesday, September 20, in Charlotte, N.C. The officer, dressed in...

Give Communities of Color a Voice in Reshaping Education

By Wade Henderson (President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights) For the first time in our nation’s history, the majority of students...

Silicon Valley Is Too Exclusive and Still Far Too White

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) Silicon Valley has ushered in social media, driverless cars, and missions to Mars, contributing...

Legendary Publisher of the Chicago Citizen, William Garth, Sr., Dies at 78

Mr. William Garth, Sr. was the Chairman of the Chicago Citizen Newspaper Group Inc., Garthco, Inc. and Founder/Chairman of the QBG Foundation, as well as Chairman...

BET Hip Hop Awards 2016-The Atlanta Voice Newspaper

Shalon Bell, correspondent for the Atlanta Voice Newspaper covering the “Green Carpet” at the 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards i

Thousands Attend Grand Opening Ceremonies for the New Black History Museum

By William J. Ford (The Washington Informer, NNPA Member) When Carolyn Tillery walked around the Washington Monument on the National Mall on Saturday and stared at...

Breaking the Cycle: Young Mother of Seven Turns Life Around at McDonald’s

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Ten years ago, Cameo Faust, a single mother of seven, was working at an Atlanta-area McDonald’s, struggling to make...

PRESS ROOM: Safety First for the All-New 2018 Chevrolet Equinox

FOR IMMMEDIATE RELEASE Safety First for the All-New 2018 Chevrolet Equinox Offers customers active safety and adaptive crash avoidance features CHICAGO — Crossover customers want a...

Film Review: The Magnificent Seven

Republicans in Virginia Plot to Make It Harder for Ex-Offenders to Vote

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Republicans in Virginia are moving to keep “violent felons” from voting forever in their latest effort to reduce the...

Former First Lady of Two African Nations, Graça Machel Launches New Women’s Network

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At Last: President Obama Dedicates New Black History Museum on the National Mall

By D. Kevin McNeir (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The idea of erecting a museum that would highlight the contributions of African Americans first received public attention more...