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CBC Members Plan State of The Union Protest

January 22, 2018 Staff 0

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a lengthy, members-only meeting on Capitol Hill on January 19, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) discussed various options to protest the current President of the […]

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King Children Criticize Trump, Decry Racism on MLK Holiday

January 15, 2018 Staff 0

  By Jonathan Landrum (AP) Martin Luther King Jr.’s children and the pastor of an Atlanta church where he preached decried disparaging remarks President Donald Trump is said to have made about African countries, while […]

Political

Trump Takes Credit For Low Black Unemployment Rate

January 9, 2018 Staff 0

By Defender News Service Donald Trump is taking credit for the historic low unemployment rate for African Americans. The president also took the opportunity to slam the Democratic Party. “African American unemployment is the lowest […]

National

PBS Frontline Investigates Black Genocide By Abortion

January 5, 2018 Staff 0

Nationwide — FRONTLINE, the award-winning documentary series on PBS, has endeavored to probe into the African American anti-abortion movement in the United States (Click here to watch the episode online). The Rev. Clenard H. Childress […]

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The Big pay Back: U.S. Senator-elect Doug Jones Hires a Black Chief of Staff

January 5, 2018 Staff 0

Dana Gresham By Frederick H. Lowe U.S. Senator-elect Doug Jones of Alabama on Tuesday hired Dana Gresham, an African-American Washington, D.C. insider, as his chief of staff. Jones, who will be sworn in Wednesday will […]

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Civil Rights Groups Want Alabama’s Newest Senator to Hire Minorities

December 29, 2017 Staff 0

by Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Black voters propelled Doug Jones’ to a historic victory in Alabama’s special election for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ vacant Senate seat. Now, civil rights groups are calling on […]

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Anita Hill to Chair Commission for Sexual Misconduct

December 18, 2017 Staff 0

Anita Hill speaks at a discussion about sexual harassment and how to create lasting change from the scandal roiling Hollywood at United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, Calif., Dec. 8, 2017. Hollywood executives and other […]

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FCC Votes Along Party Lines to End ‘Net Neutrality’

December 18, 2017 Staff 0

By TALI ARBEL and BARBARA ORTUTAY, Associated PressPublished: 14 December 2017 In a vote along party lines, the federal government has ended sweeping net-neutrality rules that guaranteed equal access to the internet. The Thursday vote […]

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Black Women Are A Political Organizing Force. They’re Not Unicorns.

December 18, 2017 Staff 0

By Julia Craven, huffingtonpost.com It was early Wednesday morning, and DeJuana Thompson, founder of Woke Vote, still hadn’t slept. She’d spent the months leading up to the special Senate election in Alabama coordinating with thousands […]

Political

Omarosa Manigault Slams Report That She Was Fired

December 14, 2017 Staff 0

by C. Gregg Omarosa Manigault Newman, wife of Jacksonville Pastor John Newman,  shut down reports that she was fired from the Trump administration on Thursday morning, telling Michael Strahan that claims of her dramatic White House exit […]

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