Thursday’s mobilization is part of an ongoing series of “Black Women Leaders and Allies Take Action” events Voting Rights & Economic Justice to originally rally support...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This has been a 30-plus year journey,” Congresswoman Jackson Lee declared. “We had to take a different approach. We had to go one...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Domestically, President Biden called on the Senate to pass voting rights legislation. “Tonight, I call on the Senate to pass the Freedom to...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Deborah Peoples, a businesswoman and former head of the Democratic Party, won nearly 83 percent of the early and absentee vote, while Arlington...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The tour’s first stop was the now dilapidated, overgrown-with-vines Bryant’s Grocery, on Money Road, in Greenwood, Miss., where 14-year-old Emmett Till of Chicago...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The House has sent a resounding message that our nation is finally reckoning with one of the darkest and most horrific periods of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — An image of a smiling Robinson, with his trademark stare and a boutonnière on his lapel, also graced the cover of the printed...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — There’s always going to be another election and you can leave a taste in folks’ mouths that will ensure that you never get...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The president highlighted the 6.6 million jobs added to the U.S. economy in the year since he took office. “It comes alongside the...
SAN DIEGO VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — Much like the United States, South Africa was shaped by more than three centuries of colonialism, slavery, violent racial conflicts...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On Friday, February 25, President Joe Biden made Judge Jackson his choice to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement in January....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A Black woman has never served on the U.S. Supreme Court since it was created in 1789 — over 232 years ago. Since...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — NBC News reported that, in the days following the riot, Miles retweeted a number of pro-Trump posts, including one shared a day before...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — We stand united in the continued fight for Black women to be represented in all arenas important to the progress of our nation,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In today’s environment, too many thought leaders are making conversations about voting rights academic, but the motivation for restricting voting is simple. Republicans...
SACRAMENTO OBSERVER — “Happy Black History Month! The first-in-the-nation California Reparations Task Force meets again on Wed-Thurs Feb 23-24,” tweeted Kamilah Moore, chair of the task...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Community organizations, such as Black Men Engaged, are vital to advancing the health and wellbeing of America,” said Secretary Xavier Becerra, U.S. Department...
OAKLAND POST — “This past year, California has been able to move 58,000 individuals off our streets and into the housing and treatment they desperately needed,”...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that is reviewing its mask guidance, shifting its focus to Covid hospitalizations as a key measure of...
ATLANTA VOICE — In the wake of Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a speech urging voting rights legislation get passed. Hear the reaction of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “What people are starting to understand, I think, is with the George Floyd situation and COVID, where people had to sit still and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 2020, Tenisha Tate-Austin and Paul Austin, a Black couple in San Francisco, sought to refinance their home mortgage. Janette Miller, a licensed...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — State and national data spanning the last 50 years highlight significant areas of economic progress among Black Americans. However, the data also make...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The filing from the office of US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar emphasized that lower US courts had extensively reviewed Harvard’s racial admissions practices...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Amid ongoing community outcry for police transparency and accountability, the updated contract with the Portland Police Association (PPA) includes employee recruitment and retention...
