BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Dr. Benjamin Chavis, president/CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), was celebrated as the father of the environmental justice movement at the...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Bryant confirmed that the company agreed to just one of the boycott’s four major demands: fulfilling its $2 billion pledge to support Black...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA National News Editor) Sidnee King, a 20 year-old broadcast journalism student at Howard University, admitted that she was nervous about her summer...
By Sarafina Wright Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer For many elders who participated in the Black Liberation Movement of the ’60s...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist History is more than a cumulative knowledge of the facts of the past. For Black Americans and for...
by Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Jordan Shanks, a sophomore English major at Howard University admitted that before Black Press Week, he didn’t...
By Nathan Hardin Special to the NNPA from The Fayetteville Observer PEMBROKE – Civil rights leader Benjamin Chavis kicked off a week-long Dr. Martin Luther King...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist You can evaluate the quality of life in a society by the way it treats its children. Too many...
For Immediate Release: November 24, 2914 Today’s announcement that the Grand Jury decided not to indict Ferguson, MO Police Officer Darren Wilson who killed unarmed 18...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Black American leadership too often is taken for granted. Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation from office not...
National Newspaper Publishers Association @NNPABlackPress #NNPA #BPUSA #VoiceofBlackAmerica For Immediate Release: Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Interim President and CEO National Newspaper Publishers Association 1816 12th...
PORTLAND, OREGON – (NNPA) – Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. a global business leader, educator, and longtime civil rights activist, was elected interim president and CEO of...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist African American History Month is an appropriate time to raise the question of the relationship between the Civil...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama served notice in his State of the Union speech that he intends to make 2014...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist This month will mark the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Across the nation and throughout the...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The inauguration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on January 1 signaled an important left-of-center turning...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When then-National Newspaper Publishers Association Chairman Danny Bakewell, Sr. asked me to emcee the Black Press Week luncheon at...
