By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) rejected an offer from the White House to meet with all 49...
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By Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) On February 20, 2017, the United Nations declared a state of famine in South Sudan. Man-made crisis and conflict had left...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During dramatic testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, James Comey, the former Director of the Federal...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a recent Republican convention in North Carolina, former Governor Pat McCrory (R-N.C.) said that he knew for a...
By Reverend Al Sharpton, National Action Network and Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., National Newspaper Publishers Association Rapidly shifting U.S. demographics are fueling the urgency of...
By Marian Wright Edelman (President, Children’s Defense Fund) Our nation’s budget should reflect our nation’s professed values, but President Trump’s 2018 Federal Budget, “A New Foundation...
By Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-N.C.) Summer internships are one important way that students can explore passions they want to pursue as a profession. They are exposed...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In a vote of 378 to 48, the House passed legislation to take power away from the current Librarian...
By Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) Growing up in a church parsonage, the eldest son of a fundamentalist Christian minister, grounded me securely in faith and...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In a rare display of bipartisanship in Congress, the United States House of Representatives voted to establish a commission...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) After backpedaling from claims he made in February, that gang leaders committed to “lower the body count” in Chicago...
By Armstrong Williams (NNPA Newswire Columnist) A few days ago the Trump Administration passed the 100 day milestone, and I can’t help but think, “So what?”...
By Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) As you read this, our world stands at a crossroads. As you read this, 20 million people stand at risk of...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) As lawmakers, community stakeholders and activists protest against current White House policies, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Carrying a 130-page document titled, “We Have A Lot To Lose: Solutions to Advance Black Families in the 21st...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In the aftermath of former-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s crushing defeat last November, a number of groups were...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) After just two months in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump has already proven to be a liability to...
By Harry Colbert, Jr. (Insight News/NNPA Member) WASHINGTON, DC—On a day that honored a stalwart of the Black Press and saw a liaison of the Trump...
By Barrington Salmon (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Immigration and labor experts say that mass deportation would cost the federal government nearly $900 billion in lost revenue over...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Less than a day after the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis of the “American Health Care Act of...
By U.S. Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.) A nation’s budget is a document that reflects its priorities. While President Trump has yet to submit his...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) A few weeks before CBC members met with President Donald Trump at the White House, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)...
By Congressman Dwight Evans (PA-02) Ever heard the term middle neighborhoods? If you haven’t, you have likely visited, lived in or driven through one more recently...
By Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) For six years, Republicans have repeated the same phrase in every conversation about healthcare: “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act...
