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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Twitter and other social media users are again gushing over the impact Beyoncé and her husband Jay Z’s commitment to students in select...
THE FLORIDA STAR — Underdog Gun Control Advocate Lucy McBath won a Georgia House Seat against GOP incumbent Karen Handel.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Should they all join the CBC, at least nine new members will be added to the ranks of the Congressional Black Caucus, which...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Like so many, I have been deeply disturbed by the senseless loss of Black male lives at the hands...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Jordan Davis was born Feb 16, 1995. Contrary to his belief, he was not named after the basketball legend Michael...
DEREK KINNER, Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a teenager in an argument over loud music...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –In the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.,...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Justice for 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who was murdered by Michael Dunn in Jacksonville, Fla. on Nov. 23, 2012 in...
(Florida Times-Union) – No one but Michael Dunn will ever truly know what he was thinking on Black Friday in 2012 when he pulled a...
DEREK KINNER, Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who opened fire on a carload of black teenagers in an argument over their loud...
DEREK KINNER, Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Michael Dunn was shooting to kill, not defending himself, when he fired at 17-year-old Jordan Davis after the...
Lauren Raab, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times)—The retrial of Michael Dunn, a Florida man who shot an unarmed teenager to death after asking...
By Irma McClaurin Special to the NNPA from Insight News PERSPECTIVE They are not insurgents. They are not enemy combatants. They are not hostile enemy forces....
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Out of every momentous national tragedy that Black Americans have continued to endure in the United States, there...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Remember the Jena Six? Some 15,000 to 20,000 protesters went to Jena, La. in 2006 to demonstrate against injustice. After...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Under other circumstances one could simply ridicule the explanations offered by the Ferguson police regarding the killing of Michael...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The flurry of polls released last week revealed that sharp disagreements exist between Black and White Americans about the...
Protester holds a picture of Michael Brown at a rally and vigil August 10. Photos: Cartan X. Mosley by Jihad Hassan Muhammad Special to the NNPA from...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Rev. R.B. Holmes, a civil rights leader and pastor of the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Filled with doubt about his future, Jordan Davis, a 17 year-old student at Samuel W. Wolfson High...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (NNPA) Cleopatra and Nathaniel A. Pendleton, Sr., parents of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendelton, who was fatally shot in the back while standing in a...
For Immediate Release Contact: Thelma Walker, 847.404.9997, tmunsonwalker@yahoo.com Adorn Lewis-Mitchell, 312.318.9696, adornlmitchell@aol.com National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation to Host Black Press Week Newsmaker of the Year...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist What are we talking about? We talking about fiction or we talking about fact? You talking about fiction? Hold up...
The Michael Dunn trial and 2-year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death lead young African-American men into the 21st century cynical of their justice system by Corey...
[The Washington Post] The reaction to the mistrial in the Michael Dunn case on the first-degree murder charge for the 2012 killing Jordan Davis was predictable in a...
