By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Shortly, before the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) annual Legacy Awards Gala, NNPA members elected veteran Chicago Crusader publisher...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The Mississippi Link’s Jackie Hampton won Publisher of the Year and the St. Louis American earned 10 awards, including...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor) In an on-going effort to increase awareness about the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA) in the Black community, the...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) U.S. Park Police confirmed that another noose was found on the National Mall, last week, according to ABC News....
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) NORRISTOWN—Saturday morning, Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill finally bent to the will of the jury and declared a...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bill Cosby said he channeled Nelson Mandela when prosecutors offered him a deal just before his trial for aggravated...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The jury remains deadlocked in the Bill Cosby trial, as it seems increasingly obvious that the judge in the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) NORRISTOWN—At 11:06 Thursday morning and after more than 30 hours of deliberation, the jury in the Bill Cosby sexual...
By Dr. Elizabeth Primas (Program Manager, NNPA/ESSA Public Awareness Campaign) I am a native Washingtonian. I still live on the same street that my parents brought...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Marguerite Jackson’s testimony in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial might have changed the course of history, but the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The criminal trial of Bill Cosby ended on Monday after defense called just one witness—a detective who had earlier...
By Noni Marshall and Alexa Imani Spencer (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellows) The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) kicked off the second year of the “Discover The Unexpected”...
By Floyd Alvin Galloway (Arizona Informant/NNPA Member) The Arizona Confederate monuments controversy has risen once again. Two years ago, it was over the naming of the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) On the fifth day of the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial, the prosecution called Veronique Valliere to the stand....
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) NORRISTOWN—Without taking the stand, Bill Cosby may have raised reasonable doubt in his sexual assault trial on Thursday, June...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In Norristown, Pennsylvania—a small, but not quite sleepy town just south of Philadelphia—Bill Cosby stands trial, accused of sexually...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The third day of the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial was a decidedly bad day for the iconic comedian,...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) (Warning: Contains some graphic descriptions) NORRISTOWN—The Bill Cosby trial was turned on its head on Tuesday as the prosecution’s...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor) President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continue to make misleading statements about Common Core State Standards (CCSS),...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) PITTSBURGH—After a third day of the jury selection process Bill Cosby criminal trial, all 12 jurors have been chosen....
By D. Kevin McNeir (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) Residents of Flint, Michigan have very little to celebrate, three years after the water crisis in the city...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) PITTSBURGH—Bill Cosby’s legal team wants to know who’s behind the curtain, pulling the lever—and the wool over the eyes...
By Black AIDS Institute Staffers The Black AIDS Institute, the nation’s only think tank focused on the impact of HIV upon Black communities, has announced a...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Why did the NAACP’s national board vote to part ways with their president, Cornell Brooks? Several longtime members contacted...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) PITTSBURGH—Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill spent most of the morning questioning the first 100 juror candidates in the criminal...
