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NNPA NEWSWIRE —  Stacy M. Brown – By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – “The new monument will protect places that tell the story of Emmett Till’s too-short life and racially motivated murder, […]

by Niara Savage (Minneapolis Spokesman) The promise of 40 acres and a mule An ambitious wealth-building initiative will provide 800 Black residents of Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota with $50,000 grants over the next eight […]

Left, Attorney Mutaqee Akbar, Rev. RB Holmes and Rick Hoye are mobilizing to stop the rewriting of Florida’s Black history curriculum. BY GINA JACKSON, Contributor TALLAHASSEE — The repeated assaults on civil rights norms and […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE —  Stacy M. Brown By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – In a one-on-one interview with the Black Press of America, Kennedy spoke about his relentless focus on combating environmental […]

By Gerren Keith Gaynor  |  President Joe Biden is awarding $115 million to support needed investments to rebuild Jackson, Mississippi’s water infrastructure, theGrio is first to report. The federal dollars are part of $600 million in appropriations […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – Vice President Kamala Harris, a force during her years in the U.S. Senate and as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, has […]

By  Forward Times Staff – Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, or Independent, President Joe Biden needs to be re-elected regardless of whether you like him. During the 2020 presidential election, many people voted for Biden simply […]

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent  @StacyBrownMedia – The white woman who testified that a Black teenager named Emmett Till had made inappropriate approaches toward her, which led to his lynching and murder in […]

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge recently held a roundtable with a group of Black journalists to discuss the ongoing issue of housing inequities and the opportunities the Biden-Harris administration has pushed for […]

By Jazmine Santillana Miami Times Staff Writer  – United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson returned to her hometown March 6 for special recognition by the Miami-Dade County Commission as it renamed a street […]