NNPA NEWSWIRE — While the violent mob of insurrectionists were storming the U.S. Capitol, leaving death and destruction in their wake, President Donald Trump telephoned several...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — We saw it in the early ‘30s when people were going hungry as this nation suffered through the agony of the Great Depression....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Biden-Harris Transition Team should not be forced to exclude talented people of color because they have chosen certain career paths. The vast...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Throughout the evening, staff members from many of the 230 publications and media companies in the Black Press family will join the broadcast...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In a release from the campaign, Biden’s camp notes that Trump’s choosing to address many of the issues that Black Americans have faced...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “They didn’t want to charge anyone with the murder of Breonna Taylor,” said Steve Romines, the attorney for Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. Officer...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The NNPA congratulates and salutes Carol H. Williams not only for her outstanding leadership but also for her longstanding commitment to freedom, justice,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Racial residential segregation is a significant predictor of the magnitude of the Black-White disparity in fatal police shootings at the city level. Efforts...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Black Americans have to be involved at all levels of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We cannot afford to be silent, detached, denied,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Benjamin Crump has earned recognition as a freedom fighting lawyer who doesn’t hesitate to defend the life and legacy of African Americans harmed...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ziggy Marley, the oldest son of the Reggae Icon Bob Marley, recently appeared on a livestream interview with the Black Press that was...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Most recently, Crump has represented three of the most high-profile cases in America today in his representation of the families of Floyd, Ahmaud...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Recent protests in communities across the country, including in my home city of Louisville, suggest that many see the blindfold worn by Lady...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "It is with a large degree of humility and great seriousness, I accept for my office, the responsibility for leadership in this critical...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — National Newspaper Publishers Association Chair Karen Carter Richards and NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., and numerous other Black Press...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — It was reminiscent of Eric Garner of Staten Island, NY, who was put in a chokehold by a New York police officer. Garner...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The first two DAs assigned the Arbery case recused because of connections to Gregory McMichaels, 64, a retired investigator for the Brunswick police...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The movement in the 1960s won a Civil Rights Act and a Voting Rights Act, but the Poor People’s Campaign was about building...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In a new lawsuit filed against James' estate in the Supreme Court of Erie County, New York, a woman alleges that the "Super...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Today we honor one of the world’s most impassioned freedom fighters and ‘drum majors for justice’: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 1965, Lewis and fellow activist Hosea Williams led what was planned as a peaceful 54-mile march through Alabama from Selma to Montgomery....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "The voice of working-class and middle-class Americans have been drowned out by lobbyists and special interest groups. This, combined with the astronomical cost...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As for “Young Cyntoia” specifically, “I would tell her, you don’t know half the things that you think you know,” she said. “I...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Cosby’s Appellate Attorney Jennifer Bonjean told NNPA Newswire that Cosby’s fight for justice isn’t over. “Not even close. Even as we move through...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — El-Mekki is answering his own “nation building” call. In May, he announced that after 11 years as Shoemaker’s principal and 26 years of...
