By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist July 17, 2015 Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist After a spirited debate, the South Carolina House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse grounds at the urging of Gov. Nikki Haley, who quickly signed the measure into law. The flag was lowered for […]
HUD Announces New Rule to Combat Housing Discrimination
By Zenitha Prince, Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper July 17, 2015 Zenitha Prince is Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently released a new rule to assist the department’s grantees in meeting their anti-segregation and anti-discrimination mandates. […]
Noted Author John A. Williams, Dead at 89
By Herb Boyd, Special to the NNPA July 17, 2015 Herb Boyd is Special to the NNPA. NEW YORK, NY (NNPA) – “Mine was a simple hunger,” John A. Williams said of his early desire to become a writer, “to know more than I then knew, and to set it […]
Dominican Republic’s ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent July 10, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – A Dominican Republic court order threatens to force more than 200,000 Dominican-born Haitians from their homes in an effort that many human rights watchers have called modern-day ethnic cleansing. Just days after the Rachel Dolezal episode captivated […]
Summit Leaders Honor ‘Accomplished African Women’
July 3, 2015 This article is Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News. This year’s focus on accomplished women was not totally overlooked at the African Union Summit, despite its preoccupation with the president of Sudan, migration, xenophobia and other pressing issues. An awards banquet was […]
Lynch’s Installation as Attorney General Overshadowed by Charleston Tragedy
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent July 3, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd attorney general of the United States using a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass, nine church members were shot to death as they studied the Bible […]
US-Senegalese Singer Unveils New Solar Campaign for Africa
June 26, 2015 This article is Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News. Senegalese-American R&B singer, Akon, has been lighting up Africa with solar energy even while the solar industry in the U.S. struggles to catch fire. The Missouri-born artist has become a rising star in the movement […]
Special Find in South Africa for African-American Museum
By Sadijah Wallace June 26, 2015 Sadijah Wallace is Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service. WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was the find that Lonnie Bunch III and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture had searched for so desperately – the remains of one of […]
Journalist Discovers 4th Rail of Politics: The LGBT Debate
By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent June 19, 2015 Sophia A. Nelson WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – It was a typical Friday night when journalist, author, and political analyst, Sophia A. Nelson did what she typically does: She posted a photo on her Twitter account. It wasn’t a typical photo and it did […]
Closing Achievement Gaps Requires More than Education Reform
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent June 19, 2015 WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Education reform alone isn’t enough to close achievement gaps between Blacks and Whites, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The study by EPI, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank focused on the needs of low- […]
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