NNPA NEWSWIRE — Boseman passed away on the anniversary of so many historic moments in African American history. August 28 is the anniversary Jackie Robinson discussed...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — More than 50 years ago, this nation enacted legal guarantees that fair housing would be available to all Americans. Despite this federal assurance,...
The Justice Department recently reopened the 1955 Emmett Till case.
Rev. Dr. William Barber of Repairers of the Breach recently led a Poor People’s Campaign march in Washington, D.C.
Joseph Jackson, the patriarch of the Jackson family of superstars, has died.
Jackson family patriarch Joseph Jackson is terminally ill following a long battle with cancer.
Karen Carter Richards is the publisher of the award-winning Houston Forward Times and the 1st Vice Chair of the NNPA.
Janelle Wood is the founder of the Black Mothers Forum, a parents’ group in the Phoenix, Ariz.-area that was empowered by the Every Student Succeeds Act,...
Meek Mill freed, Black Press and criminal justice reform, Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Correspondent, Meek Mill and criminal justice reform, Meek Mill and the Black...
A Norristown jury found comedian Bill Cosby on three counts of aggravated indecent sexual assault in the Andrea Constand case. Some legal experts said that Cosby...
Senator Kamala Harris announced that she would not accept corporate PAC money, during an interview on The Breakfast Club.
Cosby Attorney Tom Mesereau delivered opening statements in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial on Tuesday in Norristown, Pa. Mesereau painted Cosby accuser Andrea Constand as...
Juror No. 11 in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial said that he thought Cosby was guilty. Cosby’s defense team may move for a mistrial.
Civil rights leaders remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the global icon.
In Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial with accuser Andrea Constand, the comedian will likely spend much more defending himself against the charges in the case, than...
In the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial set to begin this month, Judge Steven O’Neill said that he would allow Janice Dickinson, Janice-Baker-Kinney, Heidi Thomas, Chelan...
The Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights sue the Department of Homeland Security to force the release of the “Race Paper,” a secret...
NNPA ESSA Public Awareness Campaign hosted the “Striving for African American Excellence in Public Education: The Role of the Black Press” breakfast session during Black Press...
Third Baptist Church Pastor Amos C. Brown, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and James Farmer, a senior consultant with General Motors and advocate for the Black Press,...
The NNPA honored Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) with the 2018 Newsmaker of the Year Award, during a recent event on Capitol Hill. Kamala Harris, raised in...
Bill Cosby's new criminal trial on the 2004 sexual assault allegations begins April 2, 2018. Photo taken of Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt (left) leading the comedian...
A recent Economic Policy Institute study revealed that Blacks haven’t made any progress in homeownership, unemployment or incarceration in 50 years.
Andrea Constand, the woman at the center of Bill Cosby’s upcoming sexual assault trial, received a $3.5 million settlement from the comedian in 2006.
Jordan Peele made history as the first African American filmmaker to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for “Get Out.”
An indictment filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller says that Russian “troll farms” were designed to stoke racial tensions in the U.S. and influence Black voters...
