By Barrington M. Salmon (NNPA Newswire Contributor) For Juan De Marcos González, there are three pillars that are constants in his life: family, spirituality and music....
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 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 Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In May of 2017, the Black unemployment rate hit its lowest level in 17 years: 7.5 percent. Then, in...
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 Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In an effort to improve the relationship between law enforcement and the Black community, state lawmakers in Oregon recently...
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) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is set to begin work on a report detailing advertising spending by federal agencies—particularly...
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 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 Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Martha Rivera Chavis was not just the wife of civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., but by...
By Bria Nicole Stone (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Black families overwhelmingly believe that their schools are underfunded, and that racial inequality is growing, according to a poll...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bill Cosby will face another criminal prosecution. A trial date of November 6 has been set by Montgomery County...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) While the Black Press celebrates 190 years, it’s impossible to ignore the African-American-owned newspapers that have the unique distinction...
By Bria Nicole Stone (NNPA Newswire Contributor) As tech companies struggle to recruit and hire African-Americans and other minorities, companies in another billion-dollar industry, have embraced...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) honored Martin Luther King III with the 2017 Lifetime Legacy Award, as the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Shortly, before the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) annual Legacy Awards Gala, NNPA members elected veteran Chicago Crusader publisher...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The Mississippi Link’s Jackie Hampton won Publisher of the Year and the St. Louis American earned 10 awards, including...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) U.S. Park Police confirmed that another noose was found on the National Mall, last week, according to ABC News....
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) NORRISTOWN—Saturday morning, Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill finally bent to the will of the jury and declared a...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bill Cosby said he channeled Nelson Mandela when prosecutors offered him a deal just before his trial for aggravated...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The jury remains deadlocked in the Bill Cosby trial, as it seems increasingly obvious that the judge in the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) NORRISTOWN—At 11:06 Thursday morning and after more than 30 hours of deliberation, the jury in the Bill Cosby sexual...
