REV. JESSE JACKSON PUSHES FOR FEDERAL ANTI-LYNCHING LAW By Jeffrey L. Boney (NNPA Newswire Political Analyst) If history has proven one thing, it’s that when Reverend Jesse L.
By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson The administration’s policy of indifferently dismantling and separating migrant families once they cross the southern borders of the United States is morally indefensible,
WASHINGTON (AP) — States can target people who haven’t cast ballots in a while in efforts to purge their voting rolls, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a
Days before the Chicago Plan Commission approved plans for the Obama Presidential Center, a federal lawsuit was filed to block the proposed $500 million facility that will be
By Lauren Poteat (NNPA Newswire Contributor) This year, an unprecedented number of Black women have made history running for political offices across the country. According to blackwomeninpolitics.com, a
ATLANTA (AP) — Stacey Abrams won Georgia’s Democratic primary in the gubernatorial race Tuesday, becoming the state’s first woman nominee for governor from either major party. If the
After a tight race throughout much of the evening Tuesday, Lupe Valdez pulled ahead late to comfortably defeat Andrew White in the Democratic runoff for governor, according to
BALTIMORE, Md./April 15, 2018/NNPANewswirePR—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s premier civil rights organization, issued the following statement following the disgraceful arrest of
The Conversation January 11, 2018 4.17pm EST After this last tumultuous year of political rancor and racial animus, many people could well be asking what can sustain them over the next
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
