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Stewart Trial Attorneys based in Atlanta — one of the most respected African American law firms in the country — is now handling the Ahmaud Arbery shooting. Arbery was shot twice and killed by retired […]

by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton –  The death of Ahmaud Arbery has taken the nation by storm. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has named Cobb County District Attorney Joyette Holmes as the new lead prosecutor […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators Monday pulled back a decision that allowed scores of coronavirus blood tests to hit the market without first providing proof that they worked. The Food and Drug Administration said it took […]

by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton – After Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp reopened many businesses within the state, a group of Atlanta shoppers ignored the basic protocols of social distancing to become one of the first […]

 by Lydia Blanco  –  In 2014, former President Barack Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper Alliance (MBK) to support the advancement of young men of color in America. Since launching the national program, he has kept […]

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor – “We encourage all Black churches and businesses to remain closed during this critical period. The denominations and independent churches represented in this statement, which comprise a combined […]

Washington — Kweisi Mfume, the former head of the NAACP, won Tuesday’s special election for the Maryland congressional seat held by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings. Mfume, a Democrat, defeated Republican Kimberly Klacik in the race to […]

Hsiao-Hung Pai –  Today Africans in Guangzhou are being demonised over Covid-19, but the roots of this prejudice go back centuries. “Clean up the foreign trash!”. “Don’t turn our hometown into an international rubbish dump.” […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The collapse in advertising revenue during the pandemic exacerbated the already perilous financial position of news outlets, who have been decimated by Google and Facebook’s monopolistic actions. The Tampa Bay Times was […]