By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Donald Trump, a man best known as a “birther” with a reality TV show and a real estate empire, who claimed that Mexico was sending drugs and rapists to the United States, was sworn in as president on January 20, 2017. What happened next was predictable and we […]
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Love it or Hate it, 2017 Will Be a Year Not Soon Forgotten.
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Barack Obama, a constitutional law professor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the nation’s first Black president, graciously handed the keys to the White House to a reality TV star who has been accused of sexual assault. Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump began signing dozens of executive […]
CBC Members Call Trump Presence at Museum Opening an Insult
John Lewis and Bennie Thompson Spar with President Trump Over Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Dedication By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) When two members of the Congressional Black Caucus, longtime Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), heard that President Donald Trump planned to attend the Mississippi Civil […]
Africa Not Holding Its Breath For Trump on Trade
By Grant Clark, Urban News Service After a two-year election campaign and weeks into his presidency, Africans still have no idea how Donald J. Trump plans to deal with this continent of 54 nations. Since the launch of his political career, Trump has barely mentioned Africa, home to six of the 12 fastest-growing economies in […]
Japanese Internment Camp Survivors Decry Presidential Campaign Rhetoric
Speakers Warn Central Wisconsin Students Not To Let History Repeat Itself by Glen Moberg An acclaimed central Wisconsin school history program took a political turn this past week when survivors of World War II Japanese-American internment camps warned students about the rhetoric in this year’s presidential campaign. The Walk in Their Shoes program brought the […]
Black Republicans Back Trump As Democratic Mayors Unveil Urban Agenda
By Michael H. Cottman Urban News Service Days before the Iowa caucuses, the nation’s largest association of black Republicans is endorsing Donald Trump, a candidate with little history of working on civil rights, housing or other traditional African-American issues. “We, the grassroots activists of the National Black Republican Association, are pleased to announce our endorsement […]
Trump’s Trump Card: The Conservative Mob
by Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The fate of the Republican Party’s presidential sweepstakes at the moment is being controlled by two political Frankensteins – both of them of the GOP’s own creation. One, of course, is Donald Trump, the wealthy demagogue who is leading the crowded GOP primary field precisely because he doesn’t have […]