By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Against a backdrop of death threats and under the cover of night, officials in New Orleans have begun to...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) With the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court, Senate Republicans won another victory in...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) As lawmakers, community stakeholders and activists protest against current White House policies, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) and the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) recently hosted the Sixth Annual...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Buried in the 24-hour news cycle of Russian conspiracies, presidential tweets, and claims of White House nepotism, the Trump...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Carrying a 130-page document titled, “We Have A Lot To Lose: Solutions to Advance Black Families in the 21st...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In the aftermath of former-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s crushing defeat last November, a number of groups were...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Less than a day after the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis of the “American Health Care Act of...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, titled “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,” targets a number...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) A few weeks before CBC members met with President Donald Trump at the White House, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Earlier this month, leaders from six civil rights groups met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Justice Department...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) President Trump signed an executive order to focus more attention on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on Tuesday,...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During an unexpected made-for-Hollyood moment, “Moonlight,” a film directed by African American Director Barry Jenkins, took the award for...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Following a bizarre exchange with American Urban Radio Networks White House Correspondent April Ryan, the Congressional Black Caucus is...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) There are two subjects in particular that the Trump Administration lies about the most: crime and voting. During a...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Looks like the myth that Black films can’t make big money in Hollywood is about to become a thing...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Despite a cavalcade of political distractions and a legal battle over immigration, President Trump appears to be focused on...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Cornell Belcher, the CEO of Brilliant Corners Research, said that it’s no surprise that Black voters have presented a...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The United States Senate debate over Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (D-Ala.) boiled over into confusion and accusations...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) On February 1, the first day of Black History Month, the National Museum of African American History and Culture...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In an effort to show that he plans to be the “president for all Americans” and to bolster support...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During the recent Rainbow PUSH Coalition conference in the nation’s capital, top Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher told a room...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Last week, the nation was shocked to learn that the jury for the trial of Michael Slager, the North...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Imagine if Donald Trump got two million more votes than Hillary Clinton, but by some fluke of Electoral College...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a recent forum on the 2016 presidential election on Capitol Hill, voting rights advocates and civil rights leaders...
