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Campaign Surrogates Vie for the Black Vote at the 2016 NAN convention

By Joan H. Allen (Associate Publisher, Daily Challenge) During a plenary session on the 2016 presidential election at the National Action Network’s recent national convention, Reverend...

BuzzFeed BuzzFails with ’27 Questions Black People Have For Black People’

Phill Wilson: Still Answering the Black AIDS Call at 60 Years-old

By Karen Ocamb (Black AIDS Institute) The first cases of what became HIV/AIDS hit the news on June 5, 1981. Soon, Phill Wilson, then just 25,...

Black Women Won’t Celebrate Equal Pay Day until August 1

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) The Sewall-Belmont House is located at the National Women’s Party in Washington D.C. It is one of the oldest...

Steph Curry Talks about His Faith and Family Values All the Time. Deal With It.

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) What do these four people all have in common: Wardell Stephen “Steph” Curry, II, better known as Steph Curry,...

Black Caucus Member Dramatically Apologizes for Clinton Crime Bill Vote

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In 1994, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), who represents part of Chicago, was a freshman member of the House....

Spiritually Speaking: Confidence Plus Discipline Equals Power

By James Washington (The Dallas Weekly, NNPA Member) I have two words for you today; confidence and discipline. Both of which, when viewed spiritually, exude Godly...

Film Review: The Jungle Book

Race Still Plays a Significant Role in Determining Who Gets Ahead in America, Says Clinton

By Joan H. Allen (Associate Publisher, Daily Challenge) It was a packed house at the National Action Network’s 25th Anniversary Convention’s Plenary Session for Democratic Presidential...

PRESS ROOM: Sylvester Lee of Belleville Wins National Ford Freedom Unsung Award

DEARBORN, Mich., – Ford Motor Company announced today the winner of the Ford Freedom Unsung award – a national campaign honoring the outstanding achievements of ordinary people...

Protecting the Right to Vote: Democracy Awakening

By Cornell William Brooks (President and CEO of the NAACP) When we think about the right to vote, it is and should be understood to be...

Who Is A. Philip Randolph? 5 Things You Need to Know

By Lyn Hughes Ph.D. and F. Finley McRae (A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum Founding Collection) America’s political, economic and social landscape is dotted with trees...

The Truth Behind the “Black Exodus” at the RNC

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) The Republican National Committee (RNC) is refuting claims that a number of key African-American employees were either...

WATCH LIVE: 2016 National Action Network National Convention

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Stunning Task Force Report Hammers Chicago Police for Systematic Bias

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) A police accountability task force set up by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to analyze the Chicago Police Department...

Ben Carson Backs Donald Trump, Criticizes GOP Outreach in the Black community

By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) Former Republican presidential nominee and famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson said that he trusts Donald Trump to address...

PRESS ROOM: GM Design Chief Ed Welburn To Retire July 1

WARREN, Mich. – Ed Welburn, vice president of General Motors Global Design, told employees today he will retire effective July 1, following a 44-year career with...

Chicago Home of “The First Lady of the Black Press” Is Falling Apart

By Erick Johnson (The Chicago Crusader, NNPA Member) The roof is coming apart. The creaky wooden porch is aging with growing cracks. And the navy blue...

Homosexuality Is the New Black

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) In order to have a fully functioning society, we must have some common baseline of beliefs that join us...

Payday Lending is an Abomination in Plain Sight, says Baptist Preacher

By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Every once in a while a congressional committee hearing can almost seem like a time to grab your popcorn...

Car Review: 2017 Kia Sportage

Cruz Still Faces Daunting Delegate Math After Win in Wisconsin

[BLOOMBERG.COM] It was a very good night for Ted Cruz. A rough stretch for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump culminated in the Texas underdog steamrolling to...

Blacks Voices Missing from Discussion on Western Sahara

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I was thrilled to hear that there would be a hearing on Capitol Hill regarding the human rights...

What If Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Was Black

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) It is probably not especially politically correct to bring more race matters into the debacle that is also known...