By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The Montgomery County District Attorney prosecuting Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case encouraged administration officials at Pennsylvania State University to...
By Dorothy Rowley (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) WASHINGTON, D.C.—Thousands of people, including a cadre of faith leaders from the Reconciled Church Movement (RCM), that represents various...
By Barrington Salmon (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The mainstream media response to the disappearance of a group of teenagers from Burundi, who were in Washington, D.C. for...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a recent hearing for the retrial in his infamous sexual assault case in Norristown, Pennsylvania, embattled entertainer Bill...
By Stacy M. Brown (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member) After years of financial trouble and heartbreaking enrollment decline, Cheyney University, one of the oldest Black institutions of...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bill Cosby has hired former Michael Jackson attorney Tom Mesereau to lead his defense team going into the November...
By Stacy M Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Legendary civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory died on Saturday. He was 84. Friends, family and celebrities took...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals’ reversal of a federal court’s decision in two lawsuits filed by...
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 Shayla Simmons (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Sirraya Gant, the mother of two sons who graduated from high schools in Washington, D.C. said that getting involved in...
By Elizabeth Primas (NNPA/ESSA Program Manager) The National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) recently held their annual five-day conference in Washington, D.C. to...
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 Shaquille Woods (Los Angeles Sentinel/NNPA Member) Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons recently hosted an event for RushCard’s “Keep The Peace” initiative at the University of Southern...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Education policy experts have expressed serious concerns about some of the state plans submitted under the Every Student Succeeds...
By Alexa Imani Spencer (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow) Born on a warm July day during the summer of 1997, Noni Marshall entered the world destined to create,...
By Lauren Poteat (NNPA Newswire Contributor) As Derrick Johnson assumes the role of interim president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),...
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 Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) O.J. Simpson will be a free man on October 1. On Thursday, July 20, a Nevada parole board unanimously...
By Taylor Burris (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow) “College should not make you or break you,” said Shanita Ollison, a 27 year-old “artrepreneur” and the founder and owner...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) You really don’t know a company, until you know the people who work there. Those were the introductory words...
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 Tiana Hunt (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow) Darrell Williams is a rising senior at Morehouse College, who has big dreams of being a creative director, one day....
By Freddie Allen (Managing Editor, NNPA Newswire) Family and friends from across the globe, gathered to celebrate the life and legacy of Martha Rivera Chavis in...
By Alexa Imani Spencer and Noni Marshall (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellows) Alarmed by the critical financial state of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) throughout the nation,...
