By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The leadership of the Democratic Party, at the highest levels, has consisted of mostly White men and women and...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) held its annual fundraising gala recently in Washington, D.C. Before the packed and...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The first election after 50 years of voters not being protected by the Voting Rights Act has been punctuated...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) A low key, but solid strain of references to current affairs was heard in the eulogies for much loved...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The first backlash election of the presidency of President Barack Obama’s time in office was 2010 when Democrats in...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) New York real estate millionaire Donald Trump won the White House over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Some films rely on pyrotechnics and special effects to get attention. Other films are jolting just by retelling a...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Republicans in Virginia are moving to keep “violent felons” from voting forever in their latest effort to reduce the...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) On Friday, September 16, members of the Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee (CBC PAC) took a break from...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida, who has been in Congress for 23 years, lost her primary battle, in late...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) On Saturday, August 20, I was at my mother’s house in Virginia when I received a text message, late...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) During a campaign speech in Wisconsin, Trump appealed to African American voters offering an alternative to Democratic presidential...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) Only one day after declaring himself “the law and order candidate,” the campaign of the presumptive Republican nominee...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) California Attorney General Kamala Harris is set to cruise into the United States Senate after a decisive run-off...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) Election day November 8, 2016 will be the first Presidential election in 50 years without the full...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In an unpredictable, disruptive media environment featuring new ways for consumers to receive video content over Wi-Fi, apps...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) A recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the segregation of African American and Hispanic...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In August 2013, Georgia Congressman and civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis teamed up with artist Nate Powell...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) On April 20, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that Harriet Tubman will be on the $20....
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) A police accountability task force set up by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to analyze the Chicago Police Department...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “Where do I start? How about undefinable frustration? It seems we can’t even catch our breath from our first...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist When it comes to the issue of gay rights in America, sometimes you can see the tide of a...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist If you were the new chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), beginning your time tenure when the first...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “Like the rest of America, Black America, in the aggregate, is better off now than it was when I...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist The movie Selma, which debuted on Christmas Day, is an eerily timely film detailing a history not taught in...
