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By Gerren Keith Gaynor  |  President Joe Biden is awarding $115 million to support needed investments to rebuild Jackson, Mississippi’s water infrastructure, theGrio is first to report. The federal dollars are part of $600 million in appropriations […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – Vice President Kamala Harris, a force during her years in the U.S. Senate and as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, has […]

By  Forward Times Staff – Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, or Independent, President Joe Biden needs to be re-elected regardless of whether you like him. During the 2020 presidential election, many people voted for Biden simply […]

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent  @StacyBrownMedia – The white woman who testified that a Black teenager named Emmett Till had made inappropriate approaches toward her, which led to his lynching and murder in […]

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge recently held a roundtable with a group of Black journalists to discuss the ongoing issue of housing inequities and the opportunities the Biden-Harris administration has pushed for […]

By Jazmine Santillana Miami Times Staff Writer  – United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson returned to her hometown March 6 for special recognition by the Miami-Dade County Commission as it renamed a street […]

by Austin R. Cooper Jr. – via www.washingtoninformer.com – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was created under President Lyndon B. Johnson on Sept. 9, 1965 to allow the federal government […]

@StacyBrownMedia, By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – Rep. Steven Horsford, a Democrat from Nevada, and Rep. Yvette Clarke of Brooklyn, NY, said that the government’s policy, which is very similar to […]

by AFRO Staff – On Jan. 18, Governor Wes Moore was officially sworn into office on the steps of the Maryland State House. The first Black man to take the governor’s seat in the state publicly […]

A bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without consent or compensation and used to revolutionize biomedical research, will be erected in her hometown of Roanoke, Va. WABE reports that […]