[THEGRIO.COM] In an interview on Steve Harvey’s radio show, President Obama said that anyone who votes for a third party candidate or stays at home is...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Minister Louis Farrakhan Says President Obama Should Pardon Marcus Garvey Contact: Richard B. Muhammad The Final Call Newspaper Phone: (312) 480 9775 E-mail:...
By D. Kevin McNeir (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The idea of erecting a museum that would highlight the contributions of African Americans first received public attention more...
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) Last Saturday, we were pleased to witness, firsthand, President Barack Obama’s keynote address at...
[CHRISTIANPOST.COM] President Barack Obama said that his understanding of the Bible and his Christian beliefs led him to issue the directive at public schools calling on...
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...
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...
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the columnist wrote that the White House Correspondents’ Association has “never had a Black journalist to head the...
By Harry Colbert, Jr. (Insight News, NNPA Member) The reaction to the passing of Prince Rogers Nelson, more commonly simply known as Prince, has come from...
By Jeffrey L. Boney NNPA News Wire Columnist President Barack Obama will go down in history, as arguably one of the most successful presidents of the...
By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist Does it really matter who wins the Presidency? How can it matter to Black folks, considering the way we...
By Janelle Berry Special to the NNPA News Wire from the HU News Service WASHINGTON – Ask Americans what the Emancipation Proclamation is and most who...
[POLITICO] The Obama administration took the battle over immigration to the Supreme Court on Friday, formally asking the justices to review a federal court decision that...
By Courtne Dixon Special to the NNPA News Wire Service from HU News Service WASHINGTON – The Black Lives Matter movement, who many have embraced and...
(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...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist On the heels of allowing a campaign follower in New Hampshire to assert unchallenged last week that President Obama...
Darlene Superville, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — To President Barack Obama, women of the civil rights movement were “the thinkers and the doers” whose...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Almost as surprising as Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first African American president is his success in not...
David Nakamura, THE WASHINGTON POST BOSTON (The Washington Post) — President Obama rallied union workers here Monday, announcing a new executive order that will...
Andrew Taylor and Alan Fram, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress returns on Tuesday with a critical need for a characteristic rarely evident through...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I have to make a terrible confession: I simply could not watch the first Republican debate for the 2016...
Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — President Barack Obama mixed blunt messages to Kenya’s leaders on gay rights, corruption and counterterrorism Saturday with...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Jerry Alan Bailey was sentenced to more than 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to violate federal narcotics laws....
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist There is no question that the criminal justice system is broken. President Obama made that clear recently in his...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Whenever the president of the United States speaks to a national convention of the National Association for the...