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 […]
Supreme Court Puts Reliable Government Jobs At-Risk
by Wade Henderson NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist Both of my parents worked in stable government jobs, so I had the privilege of growing up in a family that owned a home, a car, and set me on a path to college and even law school. Among members of the African-American middle class, my story […]
Famed Psychiatrist, “Isis Papers” Author Frances Cress Welsing Dead at 80
By Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, the famed 80-year-old afro-centrist, has died. Welsing’s death was announced by close friends on social media and later confirmed by family members. “RIP to the elder, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, the inspiration behind ‘Fear of a Black […]
Milwaukee Democrat Praises Obama’s Gun Control Plan
Others, Including Speaker Ryan, Say Legal Challenge Is Likely By Chuck Quirmbach President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence has received a thumbs-up from a Wisconsin lawmaker whose district is often plagued by gunfire. Rep. Mandela Barnes of Milwaukee said Tuesday that he’s especially in favor of the president’s plan to require background checks […]
Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Meets with Black Pastors
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent NNPA News Wire When presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) met with a group of Black civic and religious leaders in Baltimore, Md., Jamal Bryant, the pastor and founder of Empowerment Temple Church said that it was critical for the senator to have a conversation with those who are the […]
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