By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent February 6, 2016 Lakia Wilson, a guidance counselor from Detroit, Mich., said that even though you hear on television that the economy is coming back, it hasn’t come back for everyone. (Freddie Allen/NNPA) WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — Income inequality is rising and it affects workers […]
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Judge Could Rule in Dispute Over MLK Bible & Nobel Medal
By Kate Brumback, Associated Press January 16, 2015 In this Feb. 6, 2006 file photo, the children of Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King, left to right, Dexter Scott King, Rev. Bernice King, Martin Luther King III and Yolanda King participate in a musical tribute to their mother at the new Ebenezer […]
Edward Brooke, 1st Black Elected U.S. Senator, Dies
By Sylvia Wingfield & Mark Pratt, Associated Press January 9, 2015 This Oct. 28, 2009, file photo shows President Barack Obama greeting former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a ceremony where Brooke received the Congressional Gold Medal. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (ASSOCIATED PRESS) […]
Madison’s Latino Community Celebrates Obama’s Action on Immigration
By A. David Dahmer Novermber 19, 2014 The Madison Latino community came together for a press conference Nov. 21 at Centro Hispano of Dane County to applaud President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration delivered in a speech the night before. Above: At the press conference, Centro Hispano Executive Director Karen Menendez Coller was […]
Black pollster: ‘Democrats got their [butt] whipped’
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) —Even with overwhelming support from black voters, Democrats still lost control of the United States Senate in the mid-term elections and President Barack Obama will have to compromise with the GOP-controlled Congress in order to get anything done in his last two years. “First let’s put it […]
Race and the 2014 mid-term elections
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Is there any doubt about the preeminence of the race factor that helped to determine the outcome of the 2014 midterm elections across the United States? I have no doubt. Many of the Democrats who lost their campaigns for Congress and statewide office made no sustained effort to […]
Lynch nomination will test Obama’s relationship with new Congress
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — In what may be the first test of the GOP-controlled, United States Senate’s willingness to work with the White House, President Barack Obama nominated United States Attorney Loretta Lynch to succeed Eric Holder as the next attorney general. If confirmed, Lynch would become the first Black […]
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Watching the Election From Abroad
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist Above: George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist JERUSALEM — On Election Night, I usually stay awake as long as my eyelids are willing to cooperate. But this year was different. Instead of alternating between watching CNN and tracking results on the Internet, I was in the Holy Land, nearly […]
President Obama encourages Wisconsin to vote
By Karen Stokes, The Milwaukee Courier One week before the midterm elections President Barack Obama shared the stage with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke in front of a cheering, energized crowd of approximately 3500 with 300 in an overflow area at North Division High School, 1101 W. Center St. in the central city of Milwaukee. […]
Pressure building on Obama to impose Ebola travel ban
By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON (IPS) — President Barack Obama is under significant pressure to impose a range of restrictions on travelers coming to the United States from West African countries affected by the current Ebola outbreak. Yet public health experts and development advocates warn that such restrictions would harm the already reeling economies of […]
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