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 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 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 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 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 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...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Marguerite Jackson’s testimony in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial might have changed the course of history, but the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) For more than 17 years, Nicole Henry has been singing and performing in front of fans, friends, family members...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) NORRISTOWN—Without taking the stand, Bill Cosby may have raised reasonable doubt in his sexual assault trial on Thursday, June...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In Norristown, Pennsylvania—a small, but not quite sleepy town just south of Philadelphia—Bill Cosby stands trial, accused of sexually...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) (Warning: Contains some graphic descriptions) NORRISTOWN—The Bill Cosby trial was turned on its head on Tuesday as the prosecution’s...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) (Warning: Contains some graphic descriptions) NORRISTOWN—On the first day of the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial, Kristen Feden, a...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Dr. Kevin Williams, the chief medical officer for Pfizer’s rare disease unit, plans to help educate the masses about...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) PITTSBURGH—After a third day of the jury selection process Bill Cosby criminal trial, all 12 jurors have been chosen....
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) PITTSBURGH—Bill Cosby’s legal team wants to know who’s behind the curtain, pulling the lever—and the wool over the eyes...