By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondant @StacyBrownMedia This is the first of a two-part exclusive with Bill Cosby’s appellate lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean While Bill Cosby is being held inside a small, 9-feet-by-5-feet steel prison cell in Collegeville, Penn., where he awaits a decision from the state Superior Court on
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @ StacyBrownMedia Diahann Carroll, the trailblazing actress and first Black woman to star in a non-servant role in a television series has died. She died last Friday at age 84. Carroll starred as nurse Julia Baker in “Julia,” the hit NBC show that
By Ronald E. Carrington Trice Edney News Wire As the credits rolled, the audience of more than 200 people fell silent with astonishment and anger after viewing “The Central Park Five,” a documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon about the 1989 case in which four African-American teens
By Ronald E. Carrington Trice Edney News Wire A new survey asked likely voters across the country what they thought of a proposed debt collection rule. The response was strong and broad opposition. Proposed earlier this year by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathleen Kraninger, the rule would authorize
By Gregg Reese NNPA Newswire Contributor “Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, America is again divided, by geography, party, ideology, economics and race.” —From “Is America Heading For Another Civil War?” By Austin Sarat on July 30, 2019. The debate over the merits of
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire @StacyBrownMedia Civil rights icon Angela Davis has earned induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. The activist, educator, and former Black Panther earned the honors because of her dedicated work during the civil rights movement. Davis’ has continued fighting to secure equal rights
By Destiny Royston NNPA News Wire / Special to The New Tri-State Defender The gaming industry is expanding, and millennials are the driving force. What used to be considered a waste of time and quarters is now a full-blown industry. There is a such a thing as a professional gamer
By Barrington Salmon Trice Endey News Wire Thousands of Black community activists, organizational leaders and political observers descended on the Walter E. Washington Convention Center last week to dive into the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference. The mood was a mélange of reflection and contemplation about the past and
By Frederick H. Lowe Trice Edney News Wire The Innocence Project reported in the most recent issue of its magazine that a record nine clients were exonerated and released from prison in 2018 for crimes they didn’t commit. Maddy deLone, Innocence Project’s executive director, wrote in the Spring 2019 issue
NEWS ANALYSIS By Jesse Jackson Trice Edney News Wire This week marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous Supreme Court decision that outlawed apartheid in America, declaring segregated schools “inherently unequal” and unconstitutional. Today, the common sense of the Brown decision is under attack. For
