National

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson officially joined the U.S. Supreme Court, marking a historic first for an African American woman. After receiving the required two oaths – […]

Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League NEW YORK, June 25, 2022— National Urban League President Marc H. Morial today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to […]

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent The National Newspaper Pub lishers Association (NNPA), the Black Press of America Trade As sociation, wrapped its 2022 Conven tion in New Orleans with a cruise along […]

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Vice President Kamala Harris held an exclusive discussion with publishers from the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents the Black Press of America, to discuss various issues […]

City of New Orleans This week, City Councilmembers Helena Moreno and JP Morrell reacted to the news that a trial court blocked the Council’s landmark $1 million fine assessed against Entergy New Orleans in 2019 […]

Recently, a bipartisan group wrote an open letter to Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Robert Califf the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to assist […]

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill to officially mark Juneteenth – June 19th – as an official federal holiday. One year later, as racism continues […]

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent On May 25, 2021, the first anniversary of the killing of George Floyd by then Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin, President Joe Biden invited his family to the […]

Patrick Washington Dallas Weekly News In the wake of the 2020 social uprising in response to the now globally recognized George Floyd killing, many corporations and entities public messaged that change was necessary and specifically […]

Sylvia Dunnavant Hines NNPA Newswire Contributor After Actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock during the Oscars for making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, one word was echoed around the world – […]