Celebration of the Black Press to Feature Dr. Height; Other Civil Rights Heroes Next Week
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Black Press Week, the annual celebration of the nearly two centuries-old mission of Black-owned newspapers, will be fueled this year by the fact that the 183-year-old civil rights institution is continuing to plead its own cause even as it honors the achievements of others. “When Mr. Russwurm and Mr. Cornish said, ‘We wish to ...
'Great Gathering' Attempts to Confront Problems of Black Males
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - The plight of the African-American male is an issue that has been at the forefront of Black communities for generations. As one of historic cornerstones with enough reach to address this problem, three denominations of the Black church have united to proactively combat the social atrocities facing Black men in an ...
First Black Daily Newspaper Founded
Thirty-seven years after the first Black newspaper in America was founded in New York City (Freedom’s Journal, 1827) the Black press reached another milestone with the launching of the New Orleans Tribune, destined to become the ...
NAACP Unanimously Elects Youngest Chair
NEW YORK (NNPA) - Hours before the NAACP officially announced that Roslyn M. Brock was the new chair of the National Board of Directors, she sat down with ...
Our Family Wedding (**)
(NNPA) - “Vato! Bro! Hombre! Cuz!” The prospect of a Latino and African-American marriage fraught with cultural bias and family feuds is ripe for satire. A good sitcom writer could milk this ...
NNPA Chair Prepares to Address Congress on Census Ad Spending
Tavis Goes into Battle of Wits with Sharpton Unarmed
If Tavis Smiley were doing the commentary on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, he might begin by saying, “As Big Mama would say, he created a new behind in his opponent.” But ...
Website Site Developed in Kenya is Helping Haiti
(GIN) – A website first developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election violence in 2007 is being used to help focus where help is urgently needed in post-earthquake Haiti.
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