Political

THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL Center from the South West, showing how the Museum Building, Forum Building, and Library Building will surround a public plaza. The Center is oriented to the neighborhood just west across Stony Island […]

Former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown filed papers this week to challenge U.S. Congressman Al Lawson for the 5th Congressional District.  Lawson, a first time representative, won the seat over 12 term incumbent Corrine Brown in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Frederick H. Lowe U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a founding member of the powerful Congressional Black Caucus and the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, stepped down from his committee post on Sunday after […]