By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) With buzz building for months, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recently unveiled the official portraits of President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama in Washington D.C. New York City-based artist Kehinde Wiley created the portrait of President Obama and Baltimore artist Amy Sherald was selected to […]
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In Wake of Professor’s Comments, Katherine Johnson is Still Celebrated in Physics
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia For many, the words of a senior scientist who said physics “was invented and built by men,” stung. The words earlier this month of Professor Alessandro Strumia, who was suspended from working with the European nuclear research center, Cern, served as a reminder of the great accomplishments […]
2018 Election Results Cast Tony Evers as New Governor
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz In case it wasn’t clear by all the advertisements, including billboards, commercials and visits by former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, this past Tuesday was Election Day. All across the nation, people exercised their constitutional rights and voted. Although it was a harrowing election for some, for others […]
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No Shame in the GOP’s Game
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young The Senate is called on by the Constitution to provide “advice and consent” regarding presidential nominations of “judges of the Supreme Court.” This is an explicit charge that outlines a clear duty. Yet, hundreds of thousands of pages of relevant records of Brett Kavanaugh’s service to former […]
Tammy Baldwin Meets with Milwaukee’s Young Black Emerging Leaders at NAACP Office
By Nyesha Stone Last Friday, Sept. 14, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin came to Milwaukee to visit NAACP’s Office. While there, she sat down and spoke with the young Black leaders impacting Milwaukee about a variety of topics. The leaders who talked with Baldwin were: Ranell Washington, assistant vice president of Business Banking at Town Bank; […]
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Proposed EPA Roll-Backs Have Air of Injustice
By Felicia M. Davis Director of the HBCU Green Fund and on the boards of Green 2.0 and The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. President Trump visiting West Virginia to announce a major rollback in regulations limiting coal fired power plant emissions feels like being lost in a dark coal mine, reaching a fork […]
“Hidden Figures” Katherine Johnson Turns 100
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor Katherine Johnson, who hand-crunched the numbers for America’s first manned space flight–a feat that finally got its Big Screen acknowledgement just two years ago, turned 100 on Sunday, August 26, 2018. “[On Sunday], we celebrate Alpha Kappa Alpha’s own, Katherine Johnson. She’s credited with crunching the numbers by […]
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Trump’s Ongoing Scandals Mask a Radical Agenda that Hurts Everyday People
By Jesse Jackson Trump’s serial scandals—Stormy Daniels, the Russia investigation, the Paul Manafort verdict, the Cohen guilty plea, the juvenile tweets—fill the headlines. Beneath the noise, however, Trump’s appointees and the Republican Congress are relentlessly pursuing a radical right-wing agenda that is gutting basic protections for workers, consumers and the environment. This is often characterized […]
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SCOTUS Nominee Chosen. The Fight Begins.
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Judge Brett Kavanaugh, 53, was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. With affirmative action, voting rights, abortion rights, immigration, the Affordable Care Act, and a Federal investigation in balance, Judge Kavanaugh, if confirmed, would give conservatives a legal stronghold for decades. The fight over this nomination began only moments […]
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Trump’s Latest Blame Game
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young In all honesty, I thought I had completely exhausted all my derogatory comments and criticisms about this incompetent president, Donald Trump, and his equally-inept administrative staff. But, Trump’s ruthlessly vindictive border patrol policy has taken his presidency, in my view, to a new abysmal low. Let’s examine […]
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