About 21 million people are covered by the ACA, according to a recent analysis by the Urban Institute. Measures in the bill include protections for Americans...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The White House said this should help provide more families the opportunities to thrive. “Together, these actions will help hold medical providers and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This is a special day for Black communities and for all Americans and marks the start of a new era for the judicial...
On Feb. 25, President Joe Biden nominated Jackson, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to become the 116th justice on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On March 16, in a small auditorium at the Old Executive Office Building next door to The White House, Vice President Kamala Harris,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — ServiceNow, Silicon Valley, technology company, cloud-based platforms, solutions, digitize organizations, commitment to racial equity, higher education, Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), TMCF, scholarships,...
A coalition of local and national civil rights groups used this year’s Bloody Sunday commemorations as a time to look forward as well as back. They...
A former policy official who played a crucial role in guiding the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare – through passage and implementation, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure enjoys...
It won’t be an easy time to be a justice committed to achieving justice for all. The court is now dominated by justices who are committed to a very different...
When we see Kamala, we see ourselves. We are there. Some of you might think you could do better. But more often, we’re just glad we...
I believe that the president’s call to action was a reminder of the power of direct action. And a reminder of the power of the people...
The inability to pass voting rights comes on the same week as MLK Day in America and serves as a reminder. Setbacks are all temporary, the...
Sometimes friends have to hold friends accountable.
When she was just 30 years old, more than 400,0000 members of California’s largest labor union, SEIU Local 2015, elected LaPhonza Butler to be their president....
Bay Area and state officials lambasted both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Texas state government after the high court declined to approve an emergency petition...
Vice President Kamala Harris talks with Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., as she arrives at Oakland International Airport on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, to campaign for California...
Investigators are still going through video and social media documenting the attempt to disrupt congressional affirmation of President Joe Biden’s victory. Just six months ago.
Their ongoing mission is to explore, identify and make strategic investments and create foundational opportunities that promote job creation and sustainable, generational wealth-building in Oakland’s African American...
Fortunately, there are plenty of Black women who represent the values of the civil rights community and are ready to serve.
Lee noted that Black and Brown folks are dealing with what Carey calls “vaccine wisdom” in light of medical experiments in Tuskegee and others.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has created a childcare crisis on top of a public health crisis. Child-care providers are almost entirely women and 40% are people of color. Providing...
The leaders say California has not lived up to its commitment to equitably include African American contractors and businesses in the state’s ongoing infrastructure investments. The...
Lee and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Gwen Moore (WI-04 simultaneously released a letter sent to Vice President Kamala Harris urging...
I’m all for recycling. The good kind. Paper. Plastics. Just not the hate. But what do we have with us in Atlanta? It’s Vincent...
“As the President said last week, once the rescue plan is signed, we’ll be able to start getting payments out this month,” White House Press Secretary...