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Former Deputy White House Counsel Cassandra Butts Dies at 50

[THEROOT.COM] Cassandra Quin Butts, the former Deputy White House Counsel and nominee to the Ambassadorship to the Bahamas, died suddenly on Thursday. She was 50 years...

New Voting Rights Caucus Created in Congress

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...

The Essence of the New Black History Museum Is the True American Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og2vvruw0wy

Officer in Freddie Gray death, Edward Nero, not guilty on all counts

[MSNBC.COM] One of the six officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray was found not guilty on all counts in Baltimore Monday. Baltimore...

New Report: Despite Progress, Deep Inequality Plagues Black America

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In 1976, then-President Gerald Ford delivered the annual “State of the Union Address,” virtually ignoring the plight of...

Black Men Returned to the Job Market in April

By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) The Black unemployment rate ticked down from 8.9 percent in March to 8.8 percent in April and...

Obama Urges Howard Graduates to Continue Needed Change

By Howard University News Service WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told the graduates of one of the nation’s leading historically Black universities that America is “a...

Obama, Out: The Commander-In-Chief Proves Once Again that He’s the Best to Ever Do It

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) President Barack Obama dropped his microphone at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, acknowledging what everyone had...

Most Interesting Responses to Harriet Tubman Replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill

[CHICAGO DEFENDER] In a shocking development, and one that probably angers The View’s vapid and air-headed co-host Raven-Symone, slave revolutionary Harriet Tubman, who freed up to...

NNPA, Chevrolet Announce 2016 Discover the Unexpected Journalism Fellows

By Freddie Allen (NNPA National News Editor) Sidnee King, a 20 year-old broadcast journalism student at Howard University, admitted that she was nervous about her summer...

Race Still Plays a Significant Role in Determining Who Gets Ahead in America, Says Clinton

By Joan H. Allen (Associate Publisher, Daily Challenge) It was a packed house at the National Action Network’s 25th Anniversary Convention’s Plenary Session for Democratic Presidential...

The Truth Behind the “Black Exodus” at the RNC

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) The Republican National Committee (RNC) is refuting claims that a number of key African-American employees were either...

WATCH LIVE: 2016 National Action Network National Convention

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Ben Carson Backs Donald Trump, Criticizes GOP Outreach in the Black community

By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) Former Republican presidential nominee and famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson said that he trusts Donald Trump to address...

Mississippi woman who tried to join ISIS pleads guilty

(CBSNEWS.COM) In her farewell letter as she was leaving to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Jaelyn Young told her family she was...

Why Did Seattle Police Have to Shoot Che Taylor?

Hundreds Of Black Men Show Their Support For Students In Seattle

By Chris B. Bennett Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Seattle Medium In one of the most dynamic displays of civic engagement seen in...

Benjamin Chavis Urges Support for Black Lives Matter Movement

By Sarafina Wright Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer For many elders who participated in the Black Liberation Movement of the ’60s...

National Education Advocate Says Family Is Key to Learning

By Monique Chappell Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Charlotte Post Education always played a big part in Byron Garrett’s life. “Education has always...

Biden: I’m not running for president in 2016

(Yahoo) – Ending months of will-he-won’t-he speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is not running for president in 2016, saying the process of...

Man, 22, charged in Texas Southern University shooting

HOUSTON — A 22-year-old Houston man has been charged with murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of a Texas Southern University freshman and the...