By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a lengthy, members-only meeting on Capitol Hill on January 19, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) discussed...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Thousands of people stepped up to help former NFL linebacker Aaron Maybin raise money for students in Baltimore’s public...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Donald Trump, a man best known as a “birther” with a reality TV show and a real estate empire,...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Black voters propelled Doug Jones’ to a historic victory in Alabama’s special election for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ vacant...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) When two members of the Congressional Black Caucus, longtime Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and civil rights legend Rep....
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In a scathing open letter to President Donald Trump, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) criticized the commander-in-chief...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a conference call with reporters, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), pledged...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Civil rights leaders and members of Congress praised the dismissal of Chief Strategist Steve Bannon from the White House;...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) A panel discussion on police brutality, that featured verbal sparring between White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman and veteran journalist...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a speech at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, N.Y., President Donald Trump seemed to openly endorse...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In May of 2017, the Black unemployment rate hit its lowest level in 17 years: 7.5 percent. Then, in...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In only six months in the White House, the Trump Administration has delivered the shortest tenure of any White...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The NAACP has named Derrick Johnson, the vice chairman of their board of directors, the organization’s interim president. The...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Police brutality in the Black community is as old as law enforcement itself. Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler speaks...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) U.S. Park Police confirmed that another noose was found on the National Mall, last week, according to ABC News....
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During dramatic testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, James Comey, the former Director of the Federal...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a recent Republican convention in North Carolina, former Governor Pat McCrory (R-N.C.) said that he knew for a...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Why did the NAACP’s national board vote to part ways with their president, Cornell Brooks? Several longtime members contacted...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In a vote of 378 to 48, the House passed legislation to take power away from the current Librarian...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In a rare display of bipartisanship in Congress, the United States House of Representatives voted to establish a commission...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) There was the proposed massive budget cut to the Department of Housing and Urban Development; the incessant rhetoric about...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In their annual State of Black America report, called “Protect Our Progress,” the National Urban League (NUL) suggested that...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) After backpedaling from claims he made in February, that gang leaders committed to “lower the body count” in Chicago...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU), a historically Black university in Daytona Beach, Fla., has suffered waves of sharp criticism since school...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) A day after Taylor Dumpson, who is an African American woman, was elected to be student body president at...
