Third Baptist Church Pastor Amos C. Brown, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and James Farmer, a senior consultant with General Motors and advocate for the Black Press,...
The NNPA honored Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) with the 2018 Newsmaker of the Year Award, during a recent event on Capitol Hill. Kamala Harris, raised in...
The NNPA will honor Senator Kamala Harris with the NNPA’s 2018 Newsmaker of the Year Award during Black Press Week. James Farmer, Rep. Barbara Lee of...
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama official portraits unveiled in Washington at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery during Black History Month.
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) For 50 years, Rod Doss has remained dedicated to the New Pittsburgh Courier and his success has been among...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a trade group representing more than 200 Black-owned media companies, signed a historic,...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Nearly 50 years ago, the world lost one of its greatest heroes. That hero’s son, Martin Luther King III,...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will always be remembered as a social activist and Baptist minister whose role...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In a deal that reestablishes Essence magazine as a totally, Black and independently-owned entity, Sundial Brands founder Richelieu Dennis...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Kay Coles James, the newest president of the conservative Heritage Foundation and the first African American woman to lead...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Love it or hate it, 2017 will be a year not soon forgotten. Barack Obama, a constitutional law professor,...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Entertainer and activist Ossie Davis would be 100 years old if he was alive today. Yet, it’s impossible to...
By Erick Johnson (Chicago Crusader/NNPA Member) Fifty years ago, a tragic accident ended the groundbreaking career of Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., a Chicago native and...
By Howard Campbell (Westside Gazette/NNPA Member) The funeral service for Lowell Hawthorne, the CEO of the iconic Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill will be held...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Simeon Booker, a trailblazing Black journalist, who covered the Civil Rights Movement for the iconic African American magazines EBONY...
Simeon Booker, the Washington bureau chief of Jet and Ebony magazines for five decades, died Dec. 10 at an assisted-living community in Solomons, Md., according to...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Parkinson’s disease diagnosis caught many by surprise, but those who know him said they’re confident that...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Thomas McClary, the legendary founder of the super group the Commodores, has a new book that takes readers on...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The blue wave that swept the country last week wasn’t just a victory for Democrats, but a resounding win...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) After being eclipsed in recent years by Color of Change, Black Lives Matter and other younger, more tech savvy...
By Stacy Brown (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) Fats Domino, the rock pioneer who inspired Elvis Presley, the Beatles and countless other superstars, died Wednesday at his...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Family members, friends and fans are grieving the loss of television and stage icon Robert Guillaume, who died on...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The future of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is inextricably linked to the future...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The National Newspaper Publishers Association lost one of its own this week. Bernal E. Smith II, the president and...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The GOP has held a tight grip on the governor’s mansion in Georgia since 2002, when Sonny Perdue, promising...
