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For Black Homeowners, Great Recession has not Receded

July 3, 2015 Staff 0

By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Most economists agree that the Great Recession, sparked by the housing market crash, officially ended in 2009, but the fallout from the crisis will continue to […]

Preventing Student ‘Summer Slide’

July 3, 2015 Staff 0

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As students slip into their summer vacations, it’s up to families to make sure they don’t slip into academic amnesia. Usually, in what is called the […]

Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Restore Voting Rights Act

July 3, 2015 Staff 0

By Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Legislation that would retool and restore the Voting Rights Act was introduced in Congress on June 24. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), […]

Black GOP Leaders Attempt to Engage Black Voters

July 3, 2015 Staff 0

By James Wright Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Black voters have been safely in the Democratic column for nearly eight decades but that is not going to stop Republicans from trying to […]

President Obama Speaks, Sings of ‘Amazing Grace’ in Memory of Rev. Pinckney

July 3, 2015 Staff 0

by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American “His sacrifice must lead to reconciliation,” said U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC). Rev. Clementa Pinckney paid the ultimate price when a stranger was […]

Maryland Moves To End Confederate Flag Plates

July 3, 2015 Staff 0

By Kelly-Ann Brown Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings – Blake and several state legislators are calling for the removal of the confederate flag on Maryland license […]

EWC Honors Outstanding Alumni at National Confab

July 1, 2015 Staff 0

by M.Latimer Edward Waters College alumni from around the country met in Orlando, Florida this weekend for the 2015 EWC National Alumni Convention. The convention theme, titled “Moving our Association from Good to Great,” set […]

Rawlings-Blake Makes History as the First African-American Female President of U.S. Conference of Mayors

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

San Francisco, CA – The presidential gavel was officially handed to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake today by outgoing U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) President Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, appointing her head of the nonpartisan organization […]

Support Grows for Taking Down Confederate Flag

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In what is quickly and unexpectedly gaining ground as a fitting memorial to the nine African Americans killed by a White supremacist at Emanuel A.M.E. Church […]

Burned NC Church May be Investigated as Hate Crime

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

MEGHAN KENEALLY Digital Reporter Police are investigating whether a fire at a predominantly Black church in North Carolina is a hate crime, authorities have said. A blaze was reported at the Briar Creek Road Baptist […]

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