THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin announced on Tuesday that he is opposed to a concrete company relocating to Five Points West from downtown....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Sixty-five years ago, the Supreme Court tackled the issue of segregation in our nation's school systems. The Brown v. Board of education decision...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Senator Kamala Harris of California announced her 2020 presidential bid on the campus of Howard University, surrounded by her friends and family. Howard...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In recent times, more and more grandparents, primarily grandmothers, are taking on the responsibility of being the primary caretaker of their grandchildren. In...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — This week, the House Financial Services Committee, held a markup of five bills and two resolutions to promote responsible innovation through financial technology,...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on the passage of the FY2020 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill...
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) formally introduces a bill that she and others hope will help to stop federal agencies from overlooking Black-, other minority-, and...
Push is coming to shove in Venezuela. President Donald Trump has decided that the government of President Nicolás Maduro must go. They have recognized an obscure...
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration this week released its proposal for the city’s $3.2 billion, two year-year budget for 2019-2021, which must be approved by the end...
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — Mayor Eric Garcetti unveiled a Green New Deal for Los Angeles April 29, setting aggressive new environmental goals in a range of areas, including...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “After spending my career around the criminal justice system, I've seen up close how it can fail to ensure that poor defendants receive...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “In 2017, the GAO examined spending on advertising contracts with minority-owned businesses by five agencies – the Department of Defense, the Department of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It’s 2019. How much longer do women of color have to wait for basic equity? How can it be that we still do...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The more I thought about this idea of the Grand African race I began to see how we can bring the African diaspora...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Delucca “Lucca” Rolle, the 15-year-old high school student who was punched and had his head slammed against the concrete by law enforcement officers...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Probation is often billed as an alternative to incarceration, but instead it is frequently set with unrealistic conditions that undermine its goal of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The capacity-building plan is the result of an alliance between FedEx, Regions Bank, City of Memphis and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Let’s get one thing straight, Democrats don’t have the guts to actually file articles of impeachment against President Trump after Mueller has clearly...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — This week under the stewardship of Senator Holly J. Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), the California Senate passed Senate Bill 188 known as the Create...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a Committee Staff Report on the prices of...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — The Los Angeles Black Worker Center (LABWC) is leading the #LocalEnforcementNow movement to give Black workers a voice in support of the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “How strong is our economy? It is undoubtedly stronger than it was a year ago, but it's not as strong as some claim...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — As Haile and Shirikiana Aina Gerima have come to learn, operating a bookstore on what’s now one of the District’s fastest-growing corridors comes...
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution opposing the relocation of a Sherman Industries concrete facility to Five Points West.The...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — In its ruling Monday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) January 2018 approval of Hennepin County’s request...