By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I am quite confident that what I am about to write will prove to be quite controversial, but I...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In 2010, Goldman Sachs launched the “10,000 Small Businesses” program to help business owners unlock their potential for...
For Immediate Release: July 11, 2016 Washington, D.C. — Today, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the nation’s largest trade association of African American-owned newspapers and...
[THEATLANTIC.COM] What we know: —Twelve officers were shot by snipers. Of these, four Dallas police officers and one officer from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit were...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) It’s that time of year again when days are longer, temperatures are higher and auto dealers advertise some of...
By Marilyn Marshall (Houston Defender, NNPA Member) The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum has a reason to celebrate. A century and a half ago Black soldiers called...
1. In 1866, through an act of Congress, legislation was adopted to create six all African-American Army units. The units were identified as the 9th and...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, I work in a small accounting office of 16 people. We sit in cubicles very close to...
By Sidnee King (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow, Michigan Chronicle) Gleaners Community Food Bank, a non-profit group based in Detroit, Mich., that distributes 79,000 meals per day, recently...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) For more than a decade, civil rights organizations, labor, clergy, and consumer advocates have fought to end triple-digit interest...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) “The St. Louis American” newspaper was the big winner at the National Newspaper Publishers Association 2016 Merit Awards...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) As long as the Republican Party continues to be dominated by the same ol’, same ol’ White male staffers,...
Proposed settlement program includes vehicle buybacks and lease terminations, emissions modifications (if approved) and cash payments to affected customers for approximately 475,000 eligible 2.0L TDI vehicles...
By Kai EL’Zabar (Executive Editor, Chicago Defender) Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to Chicago on her Midwest campaign jaunt to address the Women’s International...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I have always had enormous admiration for Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) and that admiration increased exponentially when I watched...
By Denise Rolark-Barnes (Chairperson of the NNPA) and Benjamin F. Chavis (President and CEO of the NNPA) Hundreds of newspapers have disappeared in the last 15...
By Rushawn Walters (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow, The Washington Informer) After much speculation, Senator Bernie Sanders said that he will vote for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton...
By Barrington M. Salmon (NNPA News Wire Contributor) When the southern African nation of the Republic of Botswana gained independence from Britain in 1966, it was...
