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Crusader Staff Report The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 154 other civil rights organizations this week called on members of Congress to swiftly pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act, H.R. 4. The […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE By Stacey Brown — Congress authorized a $10 billion loan to the postal service as part of a coronavirus relief package. Still, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin steadfastly has refused to hand over the […]

By Clare Foran – Washington (CNN)Lawmakers and the American public are paying their respects to the civil rights icon and late congressman, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, on Monday as his body lies in state at the US […]

Kelly Tyko  USA TODAY –  Target stores will be closed on Thanksgiving due to the coronavirus pandemic, but plan to start rolling out its biggest deals of the year in stores and online in October. The Minneapolis-based retailer announced […]

C.T. Vivian addressing the annual convention of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Atlanta, September 27, 2015.By by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent The Rev. C.T. Vivian, […]

More than 1,200 current employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have signed a letter calling for the federal agency to address “ongoing and recurring acts of racism and discrimination” against Black employees, […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – “In the end, CIUs often ask the question after reviewing all the evidence, ‘if we had known all of this at the time we charged the defendant, would we have arrested him […]

ByCharles Jacobs, JNS –  Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is now the most popular and dangerous anti-Semite in America. Neo-Nazis and white supremacists are surely a problem for Jews, but polite society rejects them. […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Natalie Jackson, Special to the Houston Forward Times – Most recently, Crump has represented three of the most high-profile cases in America today in his representation of the families of Floyd, […]