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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...

After Recent Police Shootings, NNPA Declares a State of Emergency in the Black Community

By Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor) The recent extrajudicial killings of three Black males, including a 13 year-old boy, have sparked protests across the U.S....

CBC Members Push Justice Department to Investigate Police Shooting Unarmed Blacks

By William J. Ford (The Washington Informer, NNPA Member) On Thursday, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) held a news conference outside of the United States Justice...

Black Films and Artists Triumph at 2016 Toronto International Film Festival

By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) For 41 years the Toronto International Film Festival has attracted the world’s best films and built and audience. At...

President Obama Makes Urgent Call for Black Voter Turnout

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) Last Saturday, we were pleased to witness, firsthand, President Barack Obama’s keynote address at...

We Must Close the Payday Loan Debt Trap Once and For All

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Between the unemployment rate report that was released in early September, and the Census report on income and poverty that...

T.D. Jakes to Tackle Headlines in New Talk Show on OWN

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The struggles of an interracial marriage, families divided by race, religion and politics and the conversion of one Jewish...

The RNC Is Suing Me, a Black Republican, but I’ll Never Leave My Party

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) With less than seven weeks to go before one of the most historic elections in our nation’s history, and when...

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: “Trump is Nothing More than a Two-bit Racial Arsonist”

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) On Friday, September 16, members of the Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee (CBC PAC) took a break from...

Olympic Champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee Spreads the Word about Comcast’s Internet Essentials

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Jackie Joyner-Kersee has endorsed companies like Honda, Nike, McDonald’s, and Avon. For the six-time Olympic medal winner, there’s a...

Trump Can Win the White House, If the GOP Embraces Black Voters

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) On Saturday, September 10, I had the pleasure of being one of the featured speakers for the inaugural Liberty Farm...

Rep. Charles Rangel Reflects on Stellar Political Career

By D. Kevin McNeir (The Washington Informer, NNPA Member) Charles B. Rangel, the celebrated dean of New York’s congressional delegation currently serving as a member of...

Lack of Venture Capital and Bankers Stifles Economic Growth in Communities of Color

By R. Donahue Peebles (Chairman, of the Board of Directors of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.) Throughout America, minority communities are being undermined by a...

Why Access to Capital Still Matters

By A. Shuanise Washington (President and CEO Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Incorporated) The lack of access to capital is one of the gravest threats confronting minority-owned...

PRESS ROOM: Bolt EV Offers 238 Miles of Range

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DETROIT – Chevrolet promised to offer the first affordable electric vehicle with 200 miles or more of range and will exceed those expectations...

Yes, Half of Trump Supporters are Racist

[WASHINGTONPOST.COM] BALTIMORE — Hillary Clinton may have been unwise to say half of Donald Trump’s supporters are racists and other “deplorables.” But she wasn’t wrong. If...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Wins Court Case against CashCall

By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The fight for fair lending got a big boost on August 31 when a federal court rejected a payday loan...

What You Need to Know about Voting on Tuesday, November 8

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Are you ready to vote? Are you registered? These may seem like simplistic questions, especially for those who are aware,...

The Moral Origins of Donald Trump’s Improbable Rise to Power

By Armstrong Williams (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As if to compound the insult to American power represented by the world’s vociferous rejection of the Bush doctrine, the...

NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Speaks Up, Forces Fans to Confront Reality of Racism in America

[FINALCALL.COM/NNPA MEMBER] “I’m not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color. To...