![“This is just who [Biden] is as a candidate and person,” Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-La.), co-chair of the Biden campaign, told NNPA Newswire. “He got into politics because of civil rights, and he understands the value that African Americans bring to the country, to the campaign and the electorate.”](https://blackpressusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/biden-richmond-featured-web-400x240.jpg)
![“This is just who [Biden] is as a candidate and person,” Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-La.), co-chair of the Biden campaign, told NNPA Newswire. “He got into politics because of civil rights, and he understands the value that African Americans bring to the country, to the campaign and the electorate.”](https://blackpressusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/biden-richmond-featured-web-80x80.jpg)
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Biden Campaign will also spend on ad buys with African American-owned media, including the NNPA, TV One and others. Campaign officials said...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "The comments made at the end of the Breakfast Club interview were in jest, but let's be clear about what the VP was...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Minority and low-income Americans suffer from a significant lack of access to quality health care. They are also more likely not to have...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dennard, a longtime GOP political commentator, writer, consultant, and strategist, will work to ensure that African Americans and other minorities are aware of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Tom Steyer is genuine. I was at an event talking about judicial executions with police and Black folk's being slaughtered by the cops,"...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "I got started in the African American community. I got involved in the Civil Rights Movement when I was a kid. I helped...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The Bloomberg campaign’s initiative is groundbreaking, and it goes to significantly increasing the economic health of African Americans by tripling their net worth,”...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This is our revolution,” said Sanders, who will speak during the NNPA Convention’s Lifetime Legacy Award Black Tie Gala, Friday June 28th at...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Hillary appears to be out of the picture – at last! With that being the case, then who is in contention for the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “What the president has done has opened up the eyes of so many people,” said NAACP President, Derrick Johnson. “This nation has still...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — As polls opened up on Tuesday morning, voting advocates were likely both excited and fearful for what the 2018 Midterm elections could...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Michelle Alexander, the brilliant author of The New Jim Crow, writes in The Nation – that Hillary Clinton does...
Igor Bobic, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — Rick Perry stepped up to the lectern and paused. The former Texas governor scanned the...
Jessica Chasmar, THE WASHINGTON TIMES CHICAGO (The Washington Times) — A prominent black Chicago pastor believes the black community has been forsaken by the Democratic...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “America leads the world in shocks.” Those immortal words were spoken by the late Gil Scott-Heron during the Nixon “H2O...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Who can I turn to, when nobody needs me? My heart wants to know, and so I must go where destiny...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist When it comes to the issue of gay rights in America, sometimes you can see the tide of a...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist What now? What a raucous, topsy-turvy, heart-wrenching, angry year we experienced in 2014. We had everything from the sadness of...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist A recent poll showing that White, Black and Hispanic New Yorkers differ significantly in evaluating new city mayor Bill De...
By Cleo Manago NNPA Guest Columnist To explain the very low turn-out of Black (and Brown) people or Democrats during recent elections, President Barack Obama said,“…[Black people,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The November 4 election is only a moment away. Believe it or not, as of about two weeks ago, two...
Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST CLEVELAND (The Washington Post)—It was an at-times tense but by all accounts probing conversation when a few hundred gathered here...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The Court holds that SB 14 creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I had separate conversations with two governors last week. Both were White, one was a Democrat and one was a Republican. ...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)— The confidential memo from a former pollster for President Obama contained a blunt warning for Democrats. Written this...
