Victory is the Biggest Rape Case You’ve Never Heard Of by Attorney Benjamin L. Crump NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist “Wrong is wrong: justice needs to be served,” is a statement that my client Jannie Ligons made when she was interviewed shortly after Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty of rape, forcible oral sodomy and other […]
Blackonomics: The Economics of Water
by James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist “Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.” — Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I can hear the backroom discussion now: “We can save money if we stop taking our drinking water from Lake Huron and start using water from the Flint River […]
Gaps in Teacher Effectiveness Hurt Young, Minority Students
by Freddie Allen NNPA News Wire Senior Correspondent Minority and low-income students are less likely to have consistent access to effective teachers between preschool and the third grade than students from high-income households, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington, D.C-based think tank. Rachel Herzfeldt-Kamprath, a researcher at […]
Foreclosure Crisis Still Hammers Black Americans
By Avis Thomas Lester Urban News Service Affluence is no antidote to foreclosure. In Prince George’s County, Maryland — one of the United States’ wealthiest majority-black jurisdictions — the foreclosure crisis has hammered several solidly middle-class communities. These include Perrywood, a neighborhood of two-story homes near the county seat in Upper Marlboro; Marleigh in Bowie, […]
New Partnership To Support Mental Health of College Students of Color
The JED Foundation (JED) and the Steve Fund, two leading mental health organizations that focus on the well-being of young people of color, announced a joint plan to provide colleges and universities with practices for improving support for the mental health and emotional well-being of America’s college students of color. The announcement is accompanied by […]
Michigan Poisons Poor to Save a Few Bucks
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA News Wire Columnist Flint, Michigan is impoverished. The auto plants have closed. Forty percent of the city’s 100,000 residents live below the poverty level. It is majority minority. It’s been in fiscal crisis since 2011, with the state taking over budgetary control and a state-appointed “emergency manager” driving policy […]
Pocan Invites Ald. Samba Baldeh, Local Muslim Community Leader, to State of the Union Address
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) announced today that he will bring Madison Ald. Samba Baldeh as his guest to next week’s State of the Union Address to show solidarity with the American-Muslim community at a time of escalating bigotry and discrimination. Rep. Pocan joins other Members of Congress, including Reps. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz […]
Assault Charges Filed Against Cosby in Pennsylvania
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer In the wake of the criminal charges filed against legendary comedian and actor Bill Cosby, the voices that once supported the star have suddenly been silenced. And, while the Smithsonian Museum and Ben’s Chili Bowl in Washington, D.C. still grapple with […]
As I See It: Black-owned Newspapers Benched During College Football Playoffs
by G. Napier Barnes III Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Arizona Informant The more things change, the more they remain the same. As a little boy growing up in the segregated South, it had never dawned on me that someday schools like the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama, Ole Miss […]
Lifetime GPS Monitoring Of Sex Offenders At Issue In Federal Case
State Argues To Appeals Court That Lifetime Monitoring Isn’t A Form Of Punishment by Gilman Halsted A federal appeals court is considering a challenge to a state law requiring lifetime GPS monitoring for convicted sex predators. Lawyers for Michael Belleau argue the requirement amounts to retroactive punishment. The 72-year old Belleau spent 15 years in […]
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