House Bill Seeks to Undermine Consumer Financial Protection By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of the successful effort to better protect consumer finances, the...
America’s Broke Priorities By Wilmer J. Leon III NNPA Columnist On July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass gave his famous speech What to the Slave is the...
Chief Justice Roberts Casts Big Vote Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The highest court in the land has now spoken. We will continue to implement this...
CHILD WATCH Ending the Cradle to Prison Pipeline By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist A Black boy born in 2001 has a one in three chance...
Discovering Black America… My Journey Stop New York’s Stop and Frisk Laws By Linda Tarrant-Reid Special to the NNPA News Service from The Westchester County Press...
Mitt Romney met with boos in NAACP speech By Philip Rucker Washington Post [fvplayer src=”https://youtube.com/watch?v=ReLx8Tv4o7U”] HOUSTON — Wading into President Obama’s most supportive constituency Tuesday, Mitt...
by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As more people become covered as a result of the Affordable Care Act recently upheld by the...
by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Marie Bangura played host to some impromptu family bonding this weekend by turning her home into a...
by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent ATLANTA (NNPA) – When the lights darken, the curtains draw open and a story unfolds on stage, the energy of...
House Vote Against Holder ‘Highly Politicized’ By George E. Curry Editor-in-Chief NNPA News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The House of Representatives vote to hold Attorney...
By George E. Curry Editor-in-Chief NNPA News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. providing a surprise supporting vote, the United...
A labor of love came full circle Tuesday. Community members gathered to pay homage to a piece of local history during the unveiling of the county’s...
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service As the interest rates on higher education loans ratchet up higher and higher year to year, loan forgivingness...
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service During Russell Simmons’ recent visit to Israel, he realized the longstanding Palestinian-Israeli conflict looked a lot like something...
ATLANTA (NNPA) – Winners in five categories of the A. Philip Randolph Messenger Awards were announced Thursday night during the national convention of the National Newspaper...
[Politico] It was bound to happen: First, there was the Obama Girl, aka Amber Lee Ettinger, who turned heads in 2008 with her seductive YouTube videos in praise...
[MSNBC] African-Americans are 25 percent more likely to die from cancer than white Americans are, and the reasons are numerous, including lower socio-economic status, poorer access to health care,...
[The Washington Post] For six years, their parents had nagged and prodded and pressed them to perform. Now this group of African American seniors in Loudoun...
[The Examiner] Reverend Fred Leuter, Jr. Pastor of the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church (FABC) in New Orleans is primed to soon become the first African American President of...
[Essence] “The idea that a good marriage is made in heaven and swung down on a golden cord like a gift from God did not coincide with...
[News One] A recent study suggests that African-American couples affected by the trials of prostate cancer face emotional challenges that increase the burden of combating the disease. Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer...
[www.jbhe.com] By a vote of 8-4, the board of trustees approved a vote of no confidence in Florida A&M president James Ammons. President Ammons, who became...
[www.jbhe.com] Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina, has announced that Esther Terry has been appointed as interim president of the historically Black college. She...
With the 40th anniversary of Title IX just days away, one key area where questions about gender equity persist is STEM education and the under-representation of...
[Businessweek.com] The deterioration in American families’ wealth is even worse than you would know from this morning’s headlines about the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances (PDF)....
