By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia (EDITOR’S NOTE: You can make a donation to the GoFundMe campaign [https://bit.ly/3pCAQI1] set up for Dr. Moore’s funeral costs and expenses for her 19-year-old son and elderly parents. As of this writing, the campaign has raised more than $162,000.) The disparities in health care treatment […]
President-Elect Biden Nominates Miguel Cardona for Education Secretary Campaign Continues to Live up to Diversity Promise
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia On Wednesday, Dec. 23, President-elect Joe Biden selected Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona as his nominee for education secretary. Cardona’s nomination delivers on Biden’s campaign pledge to appoint an individual with public school experience, following President Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, who championed private […]
Black Woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, Developed the Scientific Approach to the Coronavirus Vaccine
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious disease doctor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addressed the African American community’s fears of accepting the new coronavirus vaccine. “To my African American brothers and sisters … this vaccine that you’re going to […]
Trump Plans to Execute Four Black Death Row Inmates Before He Leaves Office
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Before this year, no federal execution had taken place since 2003. However, in July, Attorney General William Barr, at the behest of President Donald Trump, resumed federal executions. Since then, eight people have been executed. Before Trump leaves office next month, five more death row […]
Biden-Harris Administration Commits to Ensure Government Spending with Black and Minority-Owned Media Businesses
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia President-elect Joe Biden’s administration plans to support legislation offered by District of Columbia Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton that would ensure federal agencies advertise with minority-owned businesses, including the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). “From the racial equity plan, at the direction of the president-elect, […]
Joe Biden 2020 for President Campaign Commits Major Ad Dollars to Black-Owned Media
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden is ramping up his campaign with a record-setting $280 million advertising buy. During a telephone call on Wednesday, Aug. 5, with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), Biden campaign officials said they will spend $280 million for television ads, […]
U.S. Postal Service to Review Stamp Honoring Supremes Florence Ballard
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Supremes legend Mary Wilson is on a crusade that she hopes will end with the U.S. Postal Service commemorating her late bandmate and close friend Florence Ballard on a Forever Stamp. “I get so emotional when I speak about Flo,” said Wilson, who recently received a […]
Black and Missing Foundation Shines Spotlight on Missing Persons and Their Families
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The case of Tamika Huston, a 24-year-old black woman who went missing from her Spartanburg, South Carolina, home on May 27, 2004, captivated Derrica Wilson and her sister, Natalie. Derrica and Natalie noticed how fiercely Huston’s aunt, Rebkah Howard, fought to find her. Howard went to […]
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For People of Color, Gentrification is More a Curse than a Blessing
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia From a dowdy provincial city in the 1980s, Philadelphia has become a world-class urban center through gentrification – primarily through landmark architecture that now sets the city center and University City, apart. “[Persons] Over 50, and retirees, are moving back from the suburbs where they raised […]
Mike Bloomberg Makes History with the Black Press of America
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Recognizing the importance of the Black vote and the reach of the Black Press of America, Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Bloomberg has just delivered the largest single advertising buy to the Black Press in the 80-year history of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). The NNPA […]
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