By Julianne Malveaux The Fair Housing Act was passed a week after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. President Lyndon Johnson encouraged Congress to pass the legislation as a tribute to the slain civil […]
By Dr. Gary Scott Smith Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed when he stepped from his second-floor hotel room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, to […]
By William J. Ford The NAACP announced that the group has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Census Bureau and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, “to combat the imminent threat that the […]
By Michele McCalope BATON ROUGE—Following a 10-month investigation into the extrajudicial killing of Alton Sterling, Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry announced that his office would not pursue criminal charges against the officers involved. Sterling, a […]
By John Moran Afri Modiste serves as a representation of New Orleans, and Renee Johnson is the genius behind the brand. Renee owns and runs Afri Modiste, a business in the heart of Uptown in […]
The “Ask Dr. Kevin” series is brought to you by Pfizer Rare Disease in collaboration with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) to increase understanding of sickle cell disease. The opioid crisis in the United […]
Data News Weekly Staff Edited Reports Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, parents, and victims rallied in Washington, D.C., and across the country on Saturday to demand tougher gun control measures, part of a wave of political […]
Photos by Kichea S. Burt Nothing can stop it, even a rain delay of a week didn’t stop the tribes from coming out to honor their traditions. On Sunday, March 25th the Mardi Gras Indians […]
By Edwin Buggage As we continue our over 50-year mission as “The People’s Paper” we at Data News Weekly want to thank all of those who came out and voted in the election and let […]
By Genoa Barrow Sacramento Observer NNPA Member SACRAMENTO—Angry and frustrated residents are demanding answers after a police-involved shooting left an unarmed, Black man dead last week. Stephon Clark, 22, was fatally shot in his Meadowview […]
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