U.S. Lawmakers, Mentors Reach Out to Young, Black Males at Recent Forum

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) hosted a recent summit on Capitol Hill focused on mentoring for African American males....

Congressional Art Contest Winner Depicts Police Brutality and Protests

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School Senior David Pulphus won this year’s congressional art competition with a painting...

Trump’s income tax returns once became public. They showed he didn’t pay a cent.

[WASHINGTONPOST.COM] The last time Donald Trump’s income-tax returns were made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid the federal government $0 in income taxes....

LIVE: President Obama’s Last White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Watch coverage of the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner features guest red carpet arrivals, interviews on preparations for the event, as well as remarks by President...

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton Calls for Probe of Government Advertising

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) District of Columbia Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton on Thursday fired off a letter to the Comptroller General of...

Black Caucus Members React to Tubman Replacing Jackson on the front of the $20 bill

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) On April 20, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that Harriet Tubman will be on the $20....

President Obama, Public Leaders Mourn Prince

By Harry Colbert, Jr. (Insight News, NNPA Member) The reaction to the passing of Prince Rogers Nelson, more commonly simply known as Prince, has come from...

Stop The Presses: Few endorsements Making Headlines in Black Newspapers

By Erick Johnson (From the Chicago Crusader, NNPA Member) Forget it Hillary. Sorry Bernie. When the time came for the Florida Courier to endorse either candidate,...

WATCH: Tupac Talks Donald Trump & Greed in America in Rare 1992 Interview

Campaign Surrogates Vie for the Black Vote at the 2016 NAN convention

By Joan H. Allen (Associate Publisher, Daily Challenge) During a plenary session on the 2016 presidential election at the National Action Network’s recent national convention, Reverend...

Black Caucus Member Dramatically Apologizes for Clinton Crime Bill Vote

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In 1994, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), who represents part of Chicago, was a freshman member of the House....

Race Still Plays a Significant Role in Determining Who Gets Ahead in America, Says Clinton

By Joan H. Allen (Associate Publisher, Daily Challenge) It was a packed house at the National Action Network’s 25th Anniversary Convention’s Plenary Session for Democratic Presidential...

Stunning Task Force Report Hammers Chicago Police for Systematic Bias

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) A police accountability task force set up by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to analyze the Chicago Police Department...

Cruz Still Faces Daunting Delegate Math After Win in Wisconsin

[BLOOMBERG.COM] It was a very good night for Ted Cruz. A rough stretch for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump culminated in the Texas underdog steamrolling to...

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...

PRESS RELEASE: NNPA and NAHP Join Forces on Capitol Hill to Advocate for Greater Inclusivity in All Federal Government Advertising Spending

VIDEO: President Obama Awards Medal of Honor to Navy SEAL

Heading into Super Tuesday, Trump scores big with Christie endorsement

[YAHOO] FORT WORTH—New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie formally backed Donald Trump’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination, giving his former rival a potentially significant boost in...

Hillary Clinton Meets with Civil Rights Groups, Black Millennials

By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire Managing Editor) A few days before presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton racked up a huge win in Nevada’s Democratic primary, largely...

How Jeb Bush Was Swallowed by His Past

[BLOOMBERG] At a Jeb Bush staff meeting in the conference room of a Phoenix hotel in May, a text message popped into the phone of his...

VIDEO: Debate over Immigration Heats Up

CBC PAC Endorses Hillary Clinton

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer While Sen. Bernie Sanders was in New York City dining with the Rev. Al Sharpton and courting...

As State Senate Bill 2162 is Filed, Opposition to It Organizes

By Ivory Phillips Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Jackson Advocate The long-awaited bill that would authorize a new board to control Jackson’s Medgar...

Congressional Black Caucus PAC to endorse Clinton

[POLITICO] The Congressional Black Caucus PAC announced that they will endorse Hillary Clinton. It’s a coup for the Democratic presidential contender, as many of the black...

Hillary Clinton Tours Flint, Michigan

By D. Kevin McNeir NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took a pause from campaigning on Sunday, Feb. 7 to visit Flint,...