NNPA NEWSWIRE — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan will be joined by significant figures from the civil rights and environmental justice movements,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As the U.S. House of Representatives takes up the more than $700 billion economic package that includes healthcare, tax, and climate change, White...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — When President Biden took office, the country was in the grip of a global pandemic. Businesses were shuttering, schools were closing, and people...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — This Black History Month, give Black women the gift of empowerment by investing in organizations dedicated to Reproductive Justice (RJ). Black women have...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — For communities of color who today continue to produce many of the star athletes in the sports industry, the outcries for freedom, justice...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Now is the time for the Congress of the United States to act and to vote to pass President Joe Biden’s bold and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I got here just a year after the Black Caucus started, 50 years, and the Black Caucus has gotten stronger every year with...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With President Donald Trump castigating the science of global warming, it’s little wonder that today’s environmental policies not only target people of color...
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 — Biden said he plans to hold financial institutions accountable for discriminatory practices in the housing market, and he will restore the federal government’s...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Jones said voting rights had been under attack since the 2013 Shelby V. Holder decision, which eliminated a lot of voter protections. “It’s not...
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Every year since the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches in 2015, members of the Bib and Tucker...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The fact that communities of color, low income communities, and indigenous communities across the country disproportionately face environmental hazards and harmful pollutants on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Our world is melting. Glaciers are disappearing. Oceans are rising. Lowlands (mostly populated by low income and Black people) are disappearing. And, before...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I join in solidarity with the 11-year-old girl known as Little Miss Flint who told you that spending $5 billion to make water...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals’ reversal of a federal court’s decision in two lawsuits filed by...
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,...
[COCA-COLA COMPANY] Walmart, Coca-Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo will collectively donate water to meet the daily needs of more than 10,000 school children in Flint, Mich. for...
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As one of the co-founders of the evolving environmental justice movement worldwide, I am always interested in how...
By Savannah Harris Special to the NNPA News Wire from HU News Service WASHINGTON – Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches — representing nearly 13...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The Civil Rights Movement in the United States identified a long list of issues that were broadly considered the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have often wondered about the zest and ambition of environmental groups such as the Sierra Club, Green Peace,...
By Hilton Kelley NNPA Guest Columnist Millions of African Americans and Latinos in the United States live near the 143 oil refineries operating in 32 states...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A record-high 356 temperatures were tied or broken across the contiguous United States in 2012, marking the...
