By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Congressional Black Caucus Chair Cedric Richmond and Federal Communications Commission Chair Mignon Clyburn were among eight honored with the...
By Freddie Allen (Editor-In-Chief, NNPA Newswire) During an on the record meeting with publishers of Black-owned newspapers on Capitol Hill, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) discussed a...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) A new poll about sickle cell disease (SCD), presented by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and Pfizer revealed...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Malik Russell, mrussell@naacpnet.org One Black Juror out of 12 jurors and Allegations of Inappropriate Conversations BALTIMORE, Sept. 21, 2017/NNPANewswirePR/The NAACP issued the...
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) pauses to express our heartfelt condolences to the family of Dick Gregory, and to express forthrightly on the public record...
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By Rep. Al Green (TX-09), Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (MS-02) and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) Historically, during times of national emergency, Americans unite to meet the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The Montgomery County District Attorney prosecuting Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case encouraged administration officials at Pennsylvania State University to...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Education must be governed by standards to achieve the learning goals that all parents seek for their children, said...
By Stacy M. Brown and D. Kevin McNeir (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) As more and more inches of rain fell this week in the Houston-Galveston area,...
By Dorothy Rowley (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) WASHINGTON, D.C.—Thousands of people, including a cadre of faith leaders from the Reconciled Church Movement (RCM), that represents various...
By Barrington Salmon (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The mainstream media response to the disappearance of a group of teenagers from Burundi, who were in Washington, D.C. for...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a recent hearing for the retrial in his infamous sexual assault case in Norristown, Pennsylvania, embattled entertainer Bill...
By Stacy M. Brown (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) After years of financial trouble and heartbreaking enrollment decline, Cheyney University, one of the oldest Black institutions of...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bill Cosby has hired former Michael Jackson attorney Tom Mesereau to lead his defense team going into the November...
By Stacy M Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Legendary civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory died on Saturday. He was 84. Friends, family and celebrities took...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Civil rights leaders and members of Congress praised the dismissal of Chief Strategist Steve Bannon from the White House;...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals’ reversal of a federal court’s decision in two lawsuits filed by...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) A panel discussion on police brutality, that featured verbal sparring between White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman and veteran journalist...
By Shayla Simmons (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Sirraya Gant, the mother of two sons who graduated from high schools in Washington, D.C. said that getting involved in...