“The Chavis Chronicles”

After attending the “challenging and predominately white” University of Chicago, Areva Martin went to Harvard Law School and ultimately began a career in corporate law. After just one year, she opened her own firm.

Areva Martin Continues to Advocate for Those with Special Needs and Those Facing Discrimination and Injustice

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “St. Louis is one of the most segregated cities in the nation,” Martin told National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr....

For more than thirty years, communities across the U.S. have been raising serious concerns about the disproportionate exposure to environmental threats that low-income communities, people of color, and tribal groups have borne. Recent events across the country, such as outbreaks of lead poisoning in Flint, MI and East Chicago, IN, the battles by the Standing Rock Sioux and Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw to hold onto and protect their sacred land and recent devastating flooding in Baton Rouge and Charleston, West Virginia are focusing new and needed national attention on environmental and climate justice and environmental racism. This photo is from a talk by Vernice Miller-Travis that focuses on the present and future call for environmental justice and the fact that widening economic inequality is intertwined with environmental inequities.

#NNPA BlackPress5 months ago

Vernice Miller-Travis, a Crusader who Continues the Struggle to Weed out Environmental Racism

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Vernice Miller-Travis said that it’s her job to analyze data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of national priorities. In that way,...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan said that for every location he visits, he’s sure to invite the national media to accurately report what’s going on in communities across the nation. (Official photo.)

#LetItBeKnown10 months ago

EPA Administrator, Michael S. Regan, Focused on Clean Air and Water for Communities of Color

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The bipartisan infrastructure provides resources for our communities. There are matching grants and forgivable loans, which means more of our communities have an...

(Pictured left to right): Karine Jean-Pierre, the nation’s first Black press secretary, Erica Loewe, director of African American media and outgoing press secretary Jen Psaki.

#NNPA BlackPress11 months ago

Erica Loewe Helping to Open Doors for Black Press, Others at White House

NNPA NEWSWIRE — In Erika Loewe’s all-too-important job as director of African American media, she has ensured that the Black Press and other media of color...

#NNPA BlackPress11 months ago

Bakari Sellers Reflects on History and the Future

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Sellers notes how his life has been bookended by tragedy – the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre and the 2015 Charleston Massacre, where he lost...

“The single-most thing that inspires me about the administration, one of the things I can say about this President and Vice President, is decency,” said White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. (Photo: Cabinet Secretaries Gina Raimondo and Pete Buttigieg visited the White House to join then Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for a press briefing to discuss @POTUS's Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal – a historic investment in our nation’s infrastructure.)

#NNPA BlackPress1 year ago

Karine Jean-Pierre Personifies a Diverse, Committed and Confident White House

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Representation matters. We’ve seen that from the first day of this administration, the President signed an executive order to deal with racial inequity...

“The mission and purpose of MEOA will help to catapult minority enterprise in this country,” said Shawn Rochester.

#LetItBeKnown1 year ago

African American Entrepreneurs Head SPAC in $126.5 Million IPO to Acquire Black-owned Firms

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The company’s directors are majority-minority including, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, MIT economist and Dean, College of Ethnic Studies, Cal State Los Angeles, Mr. Ronald...

Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Cedric Richmond, said that the administration also changed federal rules that punished most Black homeowners who didn’t have a clean title to their property because of slavery and systemic racism.

#LetItBeKnown1 year ago

Despite Misinformation and Distractions, Biden-Harris Accomplishing Black Agenda

NNPA NEWSWIRE — During and exclusive interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of...

After revealing to his supporters plans to fight crime and how he convinced Tyler Perry to build in Atlanta what’s now the world’s biggest and most profitable movie studio, Reed toasted the citizens of Washington and Atlanta.

#NNPA BlackPress1 year ago

Atlanta Mayoral Hopeful Kasim Reed Revels in D.C. Camaraderie at Star-Studded Fundraiser

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Howard University President Wayne A.I. Fredericks, Attorney A. Scott Bolden, and National Newspapers Publishers Association President Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., were among those...

The issues facing these communities throughout the South are not new nor will they be fixed overnight. Fortunately, SCI is taking a long-term approach that is focused on getting to the root of structural racism in the United States and creating a more just and equitable country for every American.

#NNPA BlackPress2 years ago

OP-ED: American Business Leaders Step Up to Fight Inequities in the South

NNPA NEWSWIRE — In Alabama, SCI is seeking to bridge the massive digital divide in an urban area where 450,000 households are without connection to the...

The CORE 100 was unveiled in a series of communications that led to the full presentation in the CORE 100 Special Issue Magazine on Feb. 1, 2021.

#NNPA BlackPress2 years ago

NNPA President and CEO Dr. Ben Chavis Named Among 100 Most Influential Blacks Today

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The CORE 100 honorees, which include changemakers like Stacey Abrams, Attorney Ben Crump, NBA superstar LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, mark and remind...

Hosted by civil rights icon Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., the series goes beyond the headlines to offer profound insights on matters that impact the public and provides a unique perspective from a renowned living legend of the African American community.

#NNPA BlackPress2 years ago