Category : Black Local and National News

Stacey Abrams willing to serve as vice president

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia The overcrowded Democratic presidential field has a record six women seeking the nomination. But one prominent individual who isn’t running for the top job has thrown her hat into the rin...

CITY OF MIRAMAR COMMISSIONER CHAMBERS

Mirabella Plaza in Miramar will see some vibrancy on Saturday August 24, 2019 as City of Miramar Commissioner, Maxwell Chambers rocks the block with music, food, prizes and giveaways and a chance to see and taste what the Plaza has to offer. Business...

Florida Cop Investigated for Planting Drugs During Traffic Stops

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia A Tallahassee, Florida attorney said as many as 30 clients were victimized by a dirty police officer who was caught by his own body cam footage planting drugs in a woman’s car and arrest...

NNPA Makes Plans for the Future During Informal Gathering in Houston

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia An informal gathering of National Newspaper Publishers Association board members and publishers has galvanized the 79-year-old organization and has served to renew its commitment as the...

Black Probation Officers Awarded as Heroes and Survivors of the Malibu, Woolsey Fire

By Cookie Lommel On November 8th of last year, the Woolsey fire literally burst into flames, burning thousands of acres of land, destroying more than 1643 structures, killing 3 people and causing the evacuation of thousands. By the following da...

Wage gap costs Black women more than $940,000 over a 40-year career, new NWLC analysis shows

The wage gap costs Black women $23,653 a year, according to new analysis by the National Women’s Law Center. Thursday, August 22, 2019 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day—which marks how far into the year full-time Black women workers need to work to make...

Mom who taught her three-year old son how to read and write launches course for other parents

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BlackNews.com) — Andrea Stephenson was a full-time working mom who thought her son would learn the alphabet by the age of 3 or 4. However, by utilizing fun and playful in-depth learning methods, her son spoke in full sent...

Denny’s to serve as a presenting sponsor of the 2019 NCNW Hungry for Education HBCU Tour

Denny’s to award $200,000 in scholarships to high school and college students throughout the United States SPARTANBURG, S.C., August 15, 2019 – As part of a national campaign to raise awareness about hunger and increase access to educatio...

The Chosen One

The Gantt Report By Lucius Gantt Ever since the earliest times of slavery days, Black people in America have worked on a variety of jobs, in a variety of places and for a variety of non-Black people. Slave masters, overseers and other characters cho...

Who is A Racist and What Makes Them A Racist

By Roger Caldwell Most Democrats and Liberals do not want to be called a racist. They are comfortable calling President Trump and many of his Republicans’ supporters racists. Most White people do not believe they are racist, but the majority i...

Punish Gunners/Inept Congress Person, not Guns

By John Johnson It is senseless how citizens and legislators react to gun violence. If a driver kills a pedestrian, punish the driver, not the car; should a doctor cause patient death, punish doctor, not the scalpel, terrorists’ kills’ Ameri-cans, t...

WHY LADY LIBERTY WEEPS

By Oscar H. Blayton There is a sickening stench about Ken Cuccinelli. Ken Cuccinelli is Donald Trump’s newly appointed acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and his type of stench is not one that assaults the nose, rat...

China’s Hong Kong nightmare, and the U.S. response

By Mel Gurtov Donald Trump has kept his promise, reportedly made to Xi Jinping in June, that Washington would “tone down” its comments on the spiraling HK protests. “Very tough situation” Trump tweeted on August 12. “I hope it works out for everybody...

Whitewashed History Exposed

By Kevin Palmer As the plain truth about slavery is revealed, the whitewashed version of American history is being exposed. One such revelation is an August 2019 Vox.com article by P.R. Lockhart, how slavery became America’s first big business....

Pediatricians Say Racism is Devastating to Black Children-Let’s Get to the Root Cause

By Enola Aird, Esq., Founder & President, Community Healing Network It’s amazing how often the news media give big play to an academic report that tells us something Black mothers already knew. Another example of the old wisdom nothing is r...