By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Many people would argue that health care is a right not a privilege and as a right, it must be accessible and affordable for all. Disparities in health care costs have long existed and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden Harris Administration made moves to expand the Affordable Care Act […]
Black Comedians React to Larry Wilmore’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner Jokes
by Stacy M. Brown NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer President Barack Obama dropped his microphone at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, acknowledging what everyone had already concluded: he slayed it! Larry Wilmore didn’t do so bad as host, either, at least depending upon who is doing the review and if you’re among those willing […]
President Obama Celebrates 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment
by Janelle Berry Special to the NNPA News Wire from the HU News Service WASHINGTON – Ask Americans what the Emancipation Proclamation is and most who know of President Abraham Lincoln’s executive order will respond like 20-year-old Ebony Harris, a student of Howard University from Chicago, Ill., and say, “Isn’t that the thing that freed […]
Julian Bond Praised for Unselfish Devotion to Human Rights
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and immediate past board chairman of the NAACP, is being praised for his lifelong human rights contributions by people ranging from President Obama and his former civil rights colleagues to ordinary […]
Obama: Prison Reform Needed – President Strong in NAACP Speech
By Stacy M. Brown July 24, 2015 Stacy M. Brown is Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer. Even before his keynote address in front of a cheering crowd at the annual NAACP convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday, President Barack Obama was busy practicing what he had already prepared […]
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President Obama is on a Winning Streak
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., NNPA Columnist July 10, 2015 Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., NNPA Columnist The presidency is a bit like a baseball season. Players go through streaks and slumps, good days and bad days. Teams rack up wins and losses. It is only over the course of the long season […]
Poll Finds Rising Exile Support for Obama’s Cuba Policy
April 3, 2015 (REUTERS) — A poll of Cuban-Americans shows support for the White House's new Cuba policy has risen in the three months since it was announced, with 51 percent now in favor of closer engagement with Cuba, up from 44 percent in December. The poll by consulting firm Bendixen & […]
Preparing for 2016 Campaign, Hillary Clinton Embracing Obama
By Julie Pace & Ken Thomas, Associated Press March 27, 2015 (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) “Candidates that get all tangled up trying align with or separate from their party or their president have a very poor track record of success.” WASHINGTON, D.C. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Rather than keeping him at […]
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How Walker’s Sidestep May Grant Timely Insight
By Eelisa Jones February 27, 2015 When New York’s Republican Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, told a room packed with fellow GOP members that our 44th President had no love for The United State of America, he succeeded in complicating the campaign trails for a number of high-profile potential candidates for the 2016 presidential race. […]
Don’t Disrespect Our President, Black Lawmakers Tell Netanyahu
February 20, 2015 Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., sits behind President Barack Obama at a memorial ceremony for the late former Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas S. Foley at the Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) The audience for Israeli Prime Minister […]