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CNN, NABJ in Standoff Over Diversity

March 9, 2019 Staff 0

Roland Martin By Richard Prince, Journal-isms Network Won’t Talk if Roland Martin Is Involved The National Association of Black Journalists Tuesday called out CNN for a lack of Black news executives, but CNN responded that […]

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NASA Renames Facility in Honor of Katherine Johnson

March 6, 2019 Staff 0

Mathematician Katherine Johnson poses for a photo with her namesake, the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sept. 22, 2017. Johnson’s story […]

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Epidemic of Missing Black Girls Continues to Stump Authorities, Frustrate Parents

February 25, 2019 Staff 0

(Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA). Photos of missing children: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Lashaya Stine, 16, By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Lashaya Stine, 16, was walking down the street alone […]

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Black Children Continue to be Sent to Adult Courts, Jails at Alarmingly High Rates

February 5, 2019 Staff 0

(Tennessee Tribune) Juvenile arrest rates have fallen sharply in recent years, but Black youth are disproportionately sent to adult court by judges at some of the highest percentages seen in 30 years, according to a […]

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President Announces End to Shutdown

January 27, 2019 Staff 0

The deal includes no money for his border wall.  By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent The longest government shutdown in American history is over – and President Donald Trump did not get his Wall. […]

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Civil Rights Museum Re-offers Honor to Angela Davis

January 27, 2019 Staff 0

BIRMINGHAM – An Alabama civil rights museum reversed course after a public outcry and reinstated a human rights award to activist Angela Davis that it had previously rescinded. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute said in […]

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Florida Pardons the Groveland Four: Black Men Wrongly Convicted of Raping White Teenager in 1949

January 14, 2019 Staff 0

  One of the first act of Florida’s new Governor Ron DeSantis and the state’s three-member Cabinet was to grant posthumous pardons to four Black men accused of raping a white woman in 1949 in […]

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Miami Honors Student Files Lawsuit After Being Falsely Accused of Cheating on Her SATs

January 8, 2019 Staff 0

18-year old Kamilah Campbell Miami, FL — Kamilah Campbell, an 18-year old senior high school student, says her SAT results were invalidated after she was falsely accused of cheating – allegedly because she had high […]

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Government Shutdown Closes National Black Museum Indefinitely

January 8, 2019 Staff 0

By Erick Johnson The popular National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) closed Wednesday January 2, the latest attraction to close due to the partial government shutdown. Hundreds of employees at the museum […]

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Tennessee Governor Grants Executive Clemency to Cyntoia Brown

January 8, 2019 Staff 0

by Breana Edwards Finally, there will be some justice for Cyntoia Brown, who has served 15 years in prison for killing a man who solicited her for sex when she was only 16. Tennessee Gov. Bill […]

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