NNPA NEWSWIRE — We, as a community, must stop asking others to do for us what we should be doing for ourselves. We have more education...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The disproportionate mass incarceration of people of color in America continues to grow. It is bad enough to be confined and locked up...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Penna and co-writer Ryan Morrison have given this bone-chilling adventure a very simple premise: Man against nature, man against himself.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — We recently celebrated the birthdays of two visionary Black leaders, Martin Luther King Jr. and Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. Yet, this February, as we...
LIVESTREAM: Watch as President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union Address, streamed live and followed by the Democratic Party response.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Teacher concerns transformed into organized protests when, in early 2018, the West Virginia teacher’s strike made headlines, lasting over 2 weeks. Local education...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the 2015-16 school year, Black boys made up 8 percent of public school enrollment, but they were 25 percent of the boys...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Black Press remains resilient and powerful with NNPA members providing excellent reporting from a Black perspective for more than 75 years while...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Controversial ex-U.S. security advisor Elizabeth “Libby” Lamm (Tika Sumpter, Southside, Ride Along, Sparkle) becomes a visiting professor on a liberal college campus. Under...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Boomerang’ is dynamic, solid good content. The stories we are illustrating are universal,” said Brittany Inge, who is also the creator of The...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Jimi Hendrix is one of the most important figures in American pop culture, not just American music,” said Dr. Steven Lewis, curator at...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — I will never forget the colorful characters of Beale Street: Men wearing coordinated suits, shoes and hats, with processed hair; curvaceous women walking...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “[T]he census must be conducted in a way that will not thwart the goal of equal representation,” wrote U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “…there have been vocal women of color pushing for progressive change in Congress for a long time. California Rep. Barbara Lee, who Pressley...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Trump announced the deal 35 days into the longest-ever partial government closure that has left an estimated 800,000 federal employees without pay and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — There is a movement afoot to turn back the clock and to undo all our social gains. If it were not for the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The American people need to put the pressure on Republican Senators who place more value on standing with the President in his insanity...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “That’s why it’s so refreshing when a white American takes a stand on those issues, the way Walton did at the MLK symposium....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, the chief executive officer of a community development fund, and an organization made up...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “…As I listened to the words of a song recently, I was captured by the similarity in Dr. King's words and the words...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The natural gas and oil industry supports the jobs of more than 10 million American workers, and reports project an additional 1.9 million...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “…Dr. King selflessly came to Memphis to be a supporter and a voice for the sanitation workers, as well as he was a...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The “Women in Power Town Hall” series provides a platform for leading women in policy and activism to engage listeners in a critical...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dr. King’s tragic death here in Memphis on April 4, 1968 came when he was 39. He died as he lived: Absolutely committed...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Lauterbach’s book attempts a balanced and unbiased perspective on what Withers’ legacy will be: a traitorous informant who spied for the FBI or...
