By Candace J. Semien (The Drum, NNPA Member) BATON ROUGE — Whether it was a gathering of 300 in front of the Triple S convenience store,...
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By Victoria Jones (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow, The Washington Informer) A mix of successful entrepreneurs, social activists and actors came together for one night during “Icon Talks,”...
By Brelaun Douglas (NNPA/DTU Fellow, Atlanta Voice) In an effort to boost minority participation in science and technology, 100 Black Men of America recently hosted a...
[THEATLANTIC.COM] What we know: —Twelve officers were shot by snipers. Of these, four Dallas police officers and one officer from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit were...
By Marilyn Marshall (Houston Defender, NNPA Member) The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum has a reason to celebrate. A century and a half ago Black soldiers called...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) “The St. Louis American” newspaper was the big winner at the National Newspaper Publishers Association 2016 Merit Awards...
By Kai EL’Zabar (Executive Editor, Chicago Defender) Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to Chicago on her Midwest campaign jaunt to address the Women’s International...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President of the NNPA) Today, we are exposed to 10-minute news segments six times per hour in a 24-hour news cycle...
By Tatyana Hopkins (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow, Michigan Chronicle) The lawyers of wrongfully convicted Davontae Sanford said it was clear from the beginning that he was innocent...
By Barrington M. Salmon (The Washington Informer, NNPA Member) Three days before the District of Columbia’s Democratic Presidential Primary, President Bill Clinton came to the nation’s...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President of the NNPA) History is more than the memory and documentation of the past. We all learn from the trials,...
By Victoria Jones (NNPA/DTU Journalism Program) The case of 20-year-old Stanford swimmer Brock Turner has been a hot topic across the nation since the public found...
The Cincinnati Herald Staff (The Cincinnati Herald, NNPA Member) The family of a 3-year-old boy who fell into a Cincinnati Zoo gorilla’s compound Saturday, is being...
[USWEEKLY.COM] And the winner is … ! Miss District of Columbia Deshauna Barber took home the coveted crown at the 2016 Miss USA pageant on Sunday,...
[WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM] “The Greatest” is battling in perhaps the most challenging fight of his life. Boxing legend and three-time world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali has been hospitalized...
[THEROOT.COM] Cassandra Quin Butts, the former Deputy White House Counsel and nominee to the Ambassadorship to the Bahamas, died suddenly on Thursday. She was 50 years...
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[CNN.COM] Norristown, Pennsylvania (CNN)More than a decade after he was first accused of sexual misconduct, Bill Cosby will go to trial. A Pennsylvania judge found enough...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) A recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the segregation of African American and Hispanic...
