By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In the aftermath of former-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s crushing defeat last November, a number of groups were...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) After just two months in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump has already proven to be a liability to...
By Harry Colbert, Jr. (Insight News/NNPA Member) WASHINGTON, DC—On a day that honored a stalwart of the Black Press and saw a liaison of the Trump...
By Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D-Ala.) Fifty-one years ago, on March 24, 1966, the United States Supreme Court struck down the last poll taxes in this...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Less than a day after the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis of the “American Health Care Act of...
By U.S. Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.) A nation’s budget is a document that reflects its priorities. While President Trump has yet to submit his...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) A few weeks before CBC members met with President Donald Trump at the White House, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)...
By Congressman Dwight Evans (PA-02) Ever heard the term middle neighborhoods? If you haven’t, you have likely visited, lived in or driven through one more recently...
By Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) For six years, Republicans have repeated the same phrase in every conversation about healthcare: “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor The swearing-in of all of the primary members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet is just about complete. Most of...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) President Trump signed an executive order to focus more attention on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on Tuesday,...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Following a bizarre exchange with American Urban Radio Networks White House Correspondent April Ryan, the Congressional Black Caucus is...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Cornell Belcher, the CEO of Brilliant Corners Research, said that it’s no surprise that Black voters have presented a...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The United States Senate debate over Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (D-Ala.) boiled over into confusion and accusations...
By Danny J. Bakewell, Jr. (Executive Editor, Los Angeles Sentinel) Congressman Cedric Richmond has been a congressman in New Orleans for the past six years. During...
By Freddie Allen (Managing Editor/NNPA Newswire) President Barack Obama used his last press conference of the year to reflect on the accomplishments of his administration over...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In an effort to show that he plans to be the “president for all Americans” and to bolster support...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During the recent Rainbow PUSH Coalition conference in the nation’s capital, top Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher told a room...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Several prominent African-Americans and celebrities said that they supported President-Elect Donald Trump. Some even voted for him. Among the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has raised enough money to formally request a recount in three key swing...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a recent forum on the 2016 presidential election on Capitol Hill, voting rights advocates and civil rights leaders...
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) The first sentence from the statement by Color of Change Executive Director Rashad Robinson that was released hours after...
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 Jazmin Goodwin (Howard University News Service) ALEXANDRIA, VA. – Every Election Day for nearly 30 years, people have told Terry Garrett, that she couldn’t vote....
