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 […]
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 […]
Fatal Police Shooting of Unarmed African-American Teen Sparks Protest
By Lindsey Gapin March 13, 2015 Photo: Hedi Rudd. A veteran Madison police officer shot and killed a 19-year-old African-American man around 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 6, 2015. The unarmed teenager is identified as Anthony “Tony” Robinson Jr., a 2014 graduate from Sun Prairie High School. According to police, Robinson […]
Ferguson, MO Police Chief Resigns
By Jim Salter, Associated Press March 13, 2015 In this Aug. 15, 2014 file photo, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson releases the name of the officer accused of fatally shooting Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. On Friday, March 6, 2015, Jackson is still on the job, two days after a government report criticized his […]
Anniversary of Selma March Rekindles Ferguson Comparisons
By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press March 13, 2015 In this March 13, 1965 file photo, a line of police officers hold back demonstrators who attempted to march to the courthouse in Selma, Ala. Police kept the demonstrators hemmed up in a square block area where they attempted several times to break through. (AP […]
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