Political

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – With the start of the 117th Congress this week, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), a senior member of the House Committees on Judiciary, Budget, and […]

By Claire Hansen, Staff Writer Jan. 6, 2021, at 2:58 p.m. – A mob of pro-Trump protesters forced their way inside the building shortly after lawmakers entered into a joint session of Congress to certify President-elect Joe […]

January 4, 2021 – by Margaret Kimberley – Civil rights groups’ rather basic requests for voting rights protections and the need for federal intervention to address police brutality were minimized and dismissed by the president-elect. Joe […]

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press – ATLANTA (AP) — For decades, the red-bricked Gothic Revival church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached has been a monument to the history of Black Americans’ […]

WASHINGTON – The Joint Center launched its interactive tracking tool allowing users to learn how each new Member of Congress is faring when it comes to hiring diverse top staff in their Washington, DC offices […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – As CENTCOM commander, he was responsible for military strategy and joint operations throughout the Middle East and Central and South Asia. He […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – “On Thursday, December 17, we confirmed that incoming White House Senior Advisor and Director of the Office of Public Engagement Cedric Richmond […]

by Derek Major – Outgoing President Donald Trump is pushing Congress to release a second round of coronavirus stimulus checks for Americans in the next relief package. Trump, who is still fighting a losing battle in […]

By WI Web Staff – Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has officially quashed speculation that she will be part of President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration. Bottoms, 50, said she’d rather concentrate on the city of […]

 By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor – Brandon Bernard, a Black man who was an accomplice in a crime as a teen and received little help from attorneys during his 1999 criminal trial, is […]