NNPA ESSA PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN — This month, my organization, the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools released its highly-anticipated report, “Identity and Charter School Leadership:...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We have a president who deliberately is trying to divide America and not only do we have to defeat the worst president in...
ROLLINGOUT — The Detroit community came together on Sunday, June 2, 2019, for Detroit SOUP, a micro-granting dinner focused on highlighting creative projects in the city. Held...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — A District-headquartered employees’ union has launched an interactive campaign to engage young people of color ahead of the 2020 election. The initiative of the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Black women sit at the nexus of race and gender and are buffeted by the twin spectres of these “isms”, and struggle upstream...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists, black and white, marched outside the Minnesota State Fair this weekend, hoping...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (Politico) – Memo to 2016 candidates from Black Lives Matter: We will continue to disrupt your events no matter what you do or...
(Brookings Institution) – Last Saturday, Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running to the left of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, was confronted at a...
(CBS News) – One year ago, after the death of Michael Brown and the overblown police response to largely peaceful demonstrations, lawmakers in Washington said they had...
(CBS News) – One year ago, the nation watched as the city of Ferguson, Mo., erupted. St. Louis police, dressed in riot gear, stood in a...
Bill Barrow, ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — In her second bid for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is discussing “systemic racism” and making...
By Samaria Bailey Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch pushed the NAACP to keep fighting for equality in...
“We find ourselves at crossroads in history” By Larry Miller Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – NAACP president and CEO Cornell W....
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA)—Between the rise of digital media, changing social landscapes, and decreased funding, the nation’s 8,956 public library systems are at...
by C. Denise Johnson Special to the NNPA from the New Pittsburgh Courier Award winning novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman was at Duquesne University for...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Black American leadership too often is taken for granted. Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation from office not...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After being confirmed as the nation’s first African American U.S. attorney general, Eric H. Holder, Jr. wasted little time putting...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – What do “Bring Back Our Girls,” “Justice for Trayvon” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” have in common?...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist This column is not about the recent story making headlines in New York City on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist By now, everyone knows the story of Los Angeles Clipper’s owner, Donald Sterling’s banishment from the National Basketball Association (NBA)...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The federal jobs reports for September issued last week showed the year’s slow – and therefore, disappointing – rate of...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The enduring hope is that race should not matter; the reality is that too often it does.” – Anthony Kennedy,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Within a matter of days late last month, four controversies erupted that acutely underscore the crux of Black Americans continuing...
