By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Police brutality in the Black community is as old as law enforcement itself. Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler speaks...
By Tiana Hunt (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow) Darrell Williams is a rising senior at Morehouse College, who has big dreams of being a creative director, one day....
By Freddie Allen (Managing Editor, NNPA Newswire) Family and friends from across the globe, gathered to celebrate the life and legacy of Martha Rivera Chavis in...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Martha Rivera Chavis was not just the wife of civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., but by...
By Alexa Imani Spencer and Noni Marshall (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellows) Alarmed by the critical financial state of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) throughout the nation,...
By Bria Nicole Stone (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Black families overwhelmingly believe that their schools are underfunded, and that racial inequality is growing, according to a poll...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Funeral arrangements for Martha Rivera Chavis, the devoted wife of civil rights leader and National Newspaper Publishers Association President and CEO Dr. Benjamin...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bill Cosby will face another criminal prosecution. A trial date of November 6 has been set by Montgomery County...
By Lynette Monroe (Program Assistant, NNPA/ESSA Media Campaign) Dorothy Leavell, the newly-elected chairwoman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), said that she wants the NNPA...
By Micha Green (NNPA/ESSA Contributing Writer) Parents, school experts, and civic leaders expressed their concerns about the state of education in the Black community during a...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) While the Black Press celebrates 190 years, it’s impossible to ignore the African-American-owned newspapers that have the unique distinction...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) honored Martin Luther King III with the 2017 Lifetime Legacy Award, as the...
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”...
