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By: Norman Dotson Jr./BNC Digital Media Producer – President Donald Trump will not be unveiling former President Barack Obama’s portrait at the White House, a break in the 40-year tradition following a contentious exchange between […]

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.” […]