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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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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Trump’s ‘New Deal for Blacks’ was Dealt From the Bottom of The Deck
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. African-American unemployment has reached its lowest levels ever. President Donald Trump boasts about this on the stump, naturally claiming credit for a recovery that began after his predecessor, Barack Obama, saved an economy that was in free fall. Trump says he’s delivering on his promised “new deal for blacks.” Don’t […]
Parents, Black Publishers Discuss Excellence in Public Education During Black Press Week
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Educators and education experts discussed parental engagement, equity in education and teacher diversity, during a special breakfast session for the NNPA’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Public Awareness Campaign in Washington, D.C. The session took place during the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) Black Press Week, an annual […]
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It Needs To Be Said
Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor In Spite of Trump Antics and GOP Inaction, We Are Going to Be OK The past year has been a frightening one for many Americans. Mass shootings. Racial tension. Immigration uncertainty. Political upheaval and the feeling of a loss of America’s standing in the world. We have seen […]
Former Attorney General Eric Holder Visits Wisconsin
By Karen Stokes Eric Holder, former Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015 came to Wisconsin with stops in Milwaukee and Madison to campaign for Supreme Court candidate Rebecca Dallet and to discuss redistricting and suing Governor Scott Walker. At a community discussion Thursday afternoon, sponsored by the Black Leaders Organizing for […]
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This Is Why I Hate Black Republicans
Ian Walters and Matt Schlapp Should Be Fired Over Steele Comments at CPAC By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I stopped attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), because it reminded me of “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons”; Blacks were noticeably missing from both cartoons. There were no Blacks in the past (The Flintstones) and […]
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Raising Emotionally Competent Children
How My Grandparents Taught Me to Love Myself By Lynette Monroe (Program Assistant, NNPA/ ESSA Public Awareness Campaign) I don’t remember my grandparents assisting me with homework beyond holding up flash cards for me to recite. They could have, I just don’t remember. I do remember Lil’ Bow Wow’s release of “Beware of Dog” in […]
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Black Leaders Need to Stand Up for Black People
Why Do Blacks Allow the Mainstream Media to Choose their Leaders? By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I am fond of saying, “weak people take strong positions on weak issues.” There is no better example of this than the embarrassing behavior of the weak Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the National Association for the Advancement of […]
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