By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – With civil rights legends Andrew Young, John Lewis, Julian Bond and Jesse Jackson looking on, President...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, TEXAS (NNPA) – Former President Bill Clinton praised President Lyndon B. Johnson for signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – Although he grew up in a rural farming community in Georgia during an era of rigid...
[Chicago Sun-Times] Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has been moved from a federal prison in North Carolina to a minimum-security prison camp in Montgomery, Ala.,...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Barack Obama was 2 years old when Lyndon Baines Johnson sat in the East Room of the White...
JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton used the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act to criticize efforts in several...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Senate bill Wednesday aimed at narrowing the pay gap between men and women, an election-year ritual...
ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a GOP budget blueprint that promises a balanced federal ledger in 10 years through sweeping...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Several big corporations have reaped millions of dollars from “Obamacare” even as they support GOP candidates who vow to...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have derailed an election-year Democratic bill curbing paycheck discrimination against women. The bill’s rejection was widely expected,...
More Than Seven Million Sign Up for Fed Healthcare Act by Ron Harris Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Voice ATLANTA – The March 31...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Election-year legislation to resume long-term jobless benefits is headed to the House, where a small band of dissident...
JERI CLAUSING, Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a studio that refused to photograph a lesbian couple’s...
DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday threatened Russia with tougher economic sanctions if it fails to back down...
JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights leaders and representatives from the retail industry met Thursday with New York...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans call the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on campaign donations a victory for free speech. Democrats say it’s...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling Wednesday erasing a long-standing limit on campaign donations will allow a small number of...
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has conducted warrantless searches of Americans’ communications as part of the National Security Agency’s surveillance operations...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After facing a rocky start and chorus of naysayers who declared his health care law a failure, President Barack...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After intense internal fighting, court battles and competing board of directors that have characterized Sacramento, Calif. Kevin...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Rev. R.B. Holmes, a civil rights leader and pastor of the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee,...
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s national healthcare program was on track to reach its goal of covering 7 million Americans, administration officials said on Tuesday, a...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly. (Courtesy Photo) Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly had some harsh words...
BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The defining moment of a bizarre election season in the nation’s capital wasn’t provided by Mayor Vincent Gray or...
