NNPA, Chevrolet Announce 2016 Discover the Unexpected Journalism Fellows

By Freddie Allen (NNPA National News Editor) Sidnee King, a 20 year-old broadcast journalism student at Howard University, admitted that she was nervous about her summer...

Phill Wilson: Still Answering the Black AIDS Call at 60 Years-old

By Karen Ocamb (Black AIDS Institute) The first cases of what became HIV/AIDS hit the news on June 5, 1981. Soon, Phill Wilson, then just 25,...

The Truth Behind the “Black Exodus” at the RNC

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) The Republican National Committee (RNC) is refuting claims that a number of key African-American employees were either...

WATCH LIVE: 2016 National Action Network National Convention

Watch live streaming video from officialnationalactionnetwork at livestream.com

Ben Carson Backs Donald Trump, Criticizes GOP Outreach in the Black community

By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) Former Republican presidential nominee and famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson said that he trusts Donald Trump to address...

Chicago Home of “The First Lady of the Black Press” Is Falling Apart

By Erick Johnson (The Chicago Crusader, NNPA Member) The roof is coming apart. The creaky wooden porch is aging with growing cracks. And the navy blue...

Mississippi woman who tried to join ISIS pleads guilty

(CBSNEWS.COM) In her farewell letter as she was leaving to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Jaelyn Young told her family she was...

NNPA, Chevrolet Launch Historic Internship Program at Howard University

By Freddie Allen (NNPA National News Managing Editor) In an effort to provide student journalists with a unique experience working in the Black Press, the National...

Historic Black Press Week Captivates D.C.

[PHOTO] NNPA President Benjamin Chavis speaks outside of the U.S. Capitol during a joint press conference between NNPA and NAHP. Washington, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton...

Darnell Earley Tells His Side

[PHOTO] Former Flint, Mich., Emergency Manager Darnell Earley recently spoke to the Black Press about the Flint water crisis. (Steve Carmody/Michigan Public Radio) By Keith A. Owens, Michigan...

Gerri Warren, the Late Publisher of The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, Enshrined

[PHOTO] Chida Warren-Darby, co-publisher of The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, lights a candle for her mother and former publisher of the Viewpoint, the late Gerri...

Flint Residents Deserve Better than This

[PHOTO] Armstrong Williams says that state and local officials failed Flint residents when it created the water crisis and is failing them now with their lack...

Carl Matthews’ N.C. Lunch Counter Sit-In was the Model for the Movement

By Todd Luck Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Winston-Salem Chronicle WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Carl Wesley Matthews, the leader of the local lunch counter...

Nancy Reagan, U.S. Presidential Wife and Protector, Dies at 94

[BLOOMBERG] Nancy Reagan, the former actress and first lady who nurtured the political career of husband Ronald Reagan, and was remembered for her unstinting devotion to...

D.C. Chess Club Changes Lives

By Sam P.K. Collins Special to the NNPA News Wire from AllEyesOnDC.com For young, Black men living in Washington, D.C., the game of chess provides an...

Why Did Seattle Police Have to Shoot Che Taylor?

TSD Interview – SCS Superintendent Dorsey Hopson

Hundreds Of Black Men Show Their Support For Students In Seattle

By Chris B. Bennett Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Seattle Medium In one of the most dynamic displays of civic engagement seen in...

Supreme Court Justice Scalia Dead at 79

[YAHOO] Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a tart-tongued champion of conservative interpretation of the Constitution, has died at a West Texas ranch resort, government officials said...

What is the Status of the Dream? (Part 2 of 4)

Attorney Billy Murphy Says Flint Residents, “living a nightmare”

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer Famed Baltimore Attorney William “Billy” Murphy Jr., has filed a federal class action lawsuit alleging a pattern...

Bleak Future Looms for Jackson Family Alma Mater in Gary

By Erick Johnson Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Chicago Crusader For nearly a century a school stood on West 25th Avenue in Gary...

Black Lives Matter Activist Deray McKesson runs to be Baltimore Mayor

[THE GUARDIAN] Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson announced on Wednesday night that he will run for mayor of Baltimore, a move that could shake...

Russell Simmons Brings Water and Attention to Plight of Flint Residents

By Roz Edward Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Michigan Chronicle When business mogul and founder of the RushCard, Russell Simmons, arrived in Flint...

Black Press Strategizes at Miami Conference

[PHOTO] (From left-right) Terry Jones, publisher of the New Orleans Data News Weekly, Garth Reeves, Sr., the NNPA 2016 Global Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and publisher emeritus...