by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The explosion of “dark money” spent in the political system in the United States threatens racial equity in the United States making it harder for Blacks and other minorities to gain a foothold in the middle class and fully participate in the democracy, according to […]
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Robert Johnson, Playing By His Own Rules
BET Founder Pushes Black Hiring, Launches New Network by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Robert L. Johnson keeps tabs on BET because, well, he co-founded the network and, he said, it’s like a grandparent making sure the young ones are OK. The network, like so many other business ventures […]
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 […]
New Program Trains Young Minority Males in STEM Field
By Michael H. Cottman, Urban News Service July 31, 2015 “This initiative is a first-of-its-kind, two-year program that offers 700 black male students hands-on experience in advanced technology, critical thinking, and problem solving.” BALTIMORE, MD – Ayooluwakiitan Oluwafemi, 13, proudly displayed a rubber smart-phone case that he designed on a 3D printing machine. “It’s a […]
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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Symbols are Important to Black America
By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent July 24, 2015 Five days after South Carolina retired the Confederate flag with much fanfare, a small group of protesters in Oklahoma City greeted President Barack Obama with Confederate flags. The following weekend, Ku Klux Klan members in Charleston, S.C. brandished both Confederate and Nazi […]
Black Unemployment Dips Below 10 Percent
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent May 22, 2015 Valerie Wilson, the director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) speaks jobs and the economy in the Black community during an event at the EPI. (Freddie Allen/NNPA News Wire) WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – […]
Senate Confirms Loretta Lynch as U.S. Attorney General
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall May 1, 2015 Loretta E. Lynch Last week, Loretta E. Lynch made history by becoming the 83rd U.S. Attorney General after a lengthy and protracted U.S. Senate confirmation. As the first African-American woman, second African-American and second woman to ever hold the position, she will have to […]
Detroit-Area Woman, 115, Now Listed as World’s Oldest Person
April 10, 2015 Jeralean Talley (Courtesy of ABC News) INKSTER, MICHIGAN (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — A 115-year-old Detroit-area woman now listed as the world’s oldest living person still makes plans for a fishing trip each year and credits God for her longevity. Jeralean Talley of Inkster tops a list maintained by the […]
IN DEPTH INTERVIEW: A Mother’s Grief – Tony Robinson Remembered as ‘Full of Life’
By Steven Potter April 3, 2015 “And he hugged me again, gave me a kiss and told me he loved me. That was the last time I saw him.” With friends, he went by Tony, but to family he was Terrell. Standing well over six feet tall, he towered […]
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