By Lauren Victoria BurkeNNPA Newswire Correspondent Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas says he has been the target of racism and falsely photoshopped tweets showing him holding a T-shirt saying “F*** the Police.” The accurate photos were displayed by Lucas side by side in a social media post. Lucas, 35,
By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia President Donald Trump’s failure to control the coronavirus pandemic has worsened a long list of challenges facing American families, according to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Among those challenges are caregivers, parents struggling to find childcare, and those in nursing homes, Biden
By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Supremes legend Mary Wilson is on a crusade that she hopes will end with the United States Postal Service commemorating her late bandmate and close friend Florence Ballard on a Forever Stamp. “I get so emotional when I speak about Flo,” said Wilson,
By Nsenga K. BurtonNNPA Newswire Culture and Entertainment Editor Congressman John Lewis was known and revered worldwide for his social justice activism as a young man during the modern Civil Rights movement which sparked large scale civic and social change in America. Many have seen the horrible 1965 footage and
By Hazel Trice EdneyTriceEdneyWire.com A special report released by the National Urban League reveals that the U. S. Census Bureau omitted at least 3.7 million African-Americans from its 2010 count, nearly five times the 800,000 “undercount” that the bureau has long reported. Largely due to the Coronavirus, the sluggish response
By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia The novel coronavirus has ravaged most of the globe, but in the U.S., African Americans and other communities of color have disproportionately born the lethal impact of the pandemic. Darnisha Harrison, a Louisiana State University grad and founder and CEO of Georgia-based Ennaid
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia In a significant legal victory for Bill Cosby, the state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of his 2018 conviction on charges of indecent aggravated assault. In a stunning ruling handed down last Tuesday, the court noted it’s allowing
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia As more corporations jump into the fray, offering statements of support for African Americans in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, a new study reveals that many companies’ actual policies and practices contradict their
NNPA Newswire Staff Report The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently announced it is investing up to $30 million from its endowment in voter outreach organizations in the Deep South to increase voter registration and participation among people of color with a lower propensity to vote. The initiative, called Vote
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia After going out to personally meet with demonstrators in Delaware, presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden has taken a firm stand against the police killing of George Floyd and the overall plight of African Americans who’ve been targeted, brutalized and killed
