THE AFRO — Access to suitable health care and hospitals is already an issue of disparity in communities of color in several United States cities, yet...
THE AFRO — The film industry veteran graced the stage at Howard University’s Ira Aldridge Main Theatre to a captive audience of Howard University students
Believing in hope and the possibility of change, many historically Black institutions across the nation are taking the reins when it comes to increasing voter awareness...
By Victor Ochieng Latroya Pina is indeed a sensation when it comes to swimming. The Howard University student is grabbing everyone’s attention with her breaststrokes. She’s...
Kofi Annan made his transition in August. The seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, he worked up from the lower ranks (starting at age 24) of...
Julianne Malveaux says that racism after college for Black students is an inevitable fate.
HBCU students with Howard University’s Alternative Spring Break program help to rebuild La Hermosa Church in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. In September 2017, Hurricane Maria, a Category...
Howard University students will travel to Puerto Rico to help in Hurricane Maria recovery efforts as part of the university’s Alternative Spring Break program.
By Alexa Imani Spencer (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow) Born on a warm July day during the summer of 1997, Noni Marshall entered the world destined to create,...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) It’s widely believed that Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is a racist, according to results from the first-ever, national...
By Freddie Allen (Managing Editor, NNPA Newswire) Nearly 90 percent of Black voters plan to cast ballots for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, according to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 31, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and Howard University, announced the results of the 2016 Howard...
By Freddie Allen (Managing Editor, NNPA Newswire) In a historic effort to measure the pulse of African American voters, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) partnered...
WASHINGTON D.C. – Howard University communications students are getting the chance to change the narrative of media reporting in the African American community with the help...
(The Washington Post) – Howard University students and alumni took their frustration public — and viral — Wednesday, with a gush of complaints on social media...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist When I was growing up, my parents constantly tried to be and to expose us to good role models....
(TheSmokingGun.com) — The NAACP official who today resigned in the face of evidence that she masqueraded as black once sued Howard University for denying her teaching...
Nick Anderson, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — Moody’s Investors Service cut Howard University’s credit rating Friday for the third time in three...
By Rachel Kersey Special to NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – Westboro Baptist Church, the infamous unaffiliated church known for its hateful, unorthodox protests, especially...
NNPA Rededicates Media Lab at HU’s School of Communications by Sarafina Wright Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer The National Newspaper Publishers Association rededicated...
(The Washington Post) – E. Ethelbert Miller, a noted poet and longtime director of the Afro-American Studies Resource Center at Howard University, believes he was...
(The Huffington Post) – Taraji P. Henson’s decision to enroll her son at Howard University as a result of the 20-year-old’s experience with racial profiling by...
Brennan Williams, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—As the investigation on this week’s brutal arrest of University of Virginia student Martese Johnson continues, many UVA students...
By Khari Arnold Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – Though he was the first African American with a doctoral degree in...
Jada F. Smith, NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times)—Wikipedia is a vast ocean of erudition, with entries on virtually every subject, obscure to earth-shattering,...
