At a young age she began performing at Englewood's Mount Calvary Baptist Church. She was introduced to the Manhattans by New York radio DJ Vaughn Harper...
Kenny Lattimore first developed his interest for music in the high school band program at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. Professionally, a stint as...
#FIYAH! LIVESTREAM REPLAY — Jermaine Dupri has established his So So Def Recordings record label (its roster has included Kris Kross, Bow Wow, TLC and Usher)...
The workshop, titled “Zero Emissions: The Future of E-Mobility in Black and Brown Communities,” is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18, as...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "We cannot afford another four years of Donald Trump's chaotic presidency and the DNC is not taking nothing for granted this November,” said...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The NNPA congratulates and salutes Carol H. Williams not only for her outstanding leadership but also for her longstanding commitment to freedom, justice,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Racial residential segregation is a significant predictor of the magnitude of the Black-White disparity in fatal police shootings at the city level. Efforts...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — After the Republican Convention, President Trump has cut into Biden’s lead, and it appears that our president is a man of character. Trump...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the age of COVID, film festival directors are finding creative ways to screen movies for audiences without gathering large groups at indoor...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — My fury with Trump over his approach towards service men and women is not rooted in jingoism. Anyone having read any of my...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Donald Trump’s lies and hateful rhetoric are not only destructive to our democracy, they have cost the United States over 6 million coronavirus...
While others in the media struggled with adjusting to state-mandated quarantines, shut inside in their homes trying to figure out how to produce their segments remotely,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Wells Fargo officials said Dixon has been instrumental in helping the company take a number of new actions around D&I, including; helping create...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Board Challenge’s Founding Pledge Partners commit to adding at least one Black director to their respective boards in the next 12 months....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Vice-Chair of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee and a member of the Homeland Security Committee, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY) also chairs its...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has introduced several bills, including the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act, H.R....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Although I have received a few awards during my lifetime for various things, I tend not to think much about them. But when...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In partnership with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), Matthews-Alexander and Chevrolet have invested heavily in the future of Black journalism while simultaneously...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The 7 p.m. virtual event airs tonight (Thursday, Sept. 10) and features acclaimed actor Don Cheadle and the Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley of...
2020 NNPA NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS — “We have COVID, we have anti-Black, we have the very tenuous economy and we have the climate catastrophe,” said Dr....
2020 NNPA NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS — A graduate of Chatham University and American University – with honorary degrees from both Chatham University and Trinity University, Mayor...
2020 NNPA LEADERSHIP AWARDS — Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who began his grassroots political activism being a civil rights champion through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We can’t continue to live in fear with the police’s militarization and where Black lives don’t matter. If we don’t change the face...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in both men and women in America. It is the second most common cause of...
