By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Young people from around the country are expected to unite to help fight climate change on Friday, September 20. The … [Read more...]
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The Human and Economic Toll of Gun Violence is Staggering
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Approximately 7,500 African Americans are killed each year because of gun violence. Further, it’s 20 times more likely that a … [Read more...]
Butterfield Introduces ‘BRIDGE Act’ to Push STEM Education, Employment
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The United States will need an estimated 1 million more STEM professionals by 2022 to keep up with workforce demands, according … [Read more...]
‘Weeping Time’ Author, Historian Anne C. Bailey Discusses Slave Auctions and her Involvement in NY Times’ 1619 Project
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Binghamton University Historian Anne C. Bailey has studied slavery and the plight of African Americans for quite some … [Read more...]
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Three Day Event Planned to Commemorate First African Landing in Virginia
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia In August 1619, more than 20 Africans landed at Old Point Comfort, the present-day Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., and were forced … [Read more...]
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All 12 Federal Appropriations Committees Adopt Norton’s Minority Ad Spending Measure
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Beginning later this year when federal agencies submit proposed budgets to one or more of the 12 Appropriations Committees, … [Read more...]
Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Fair Chance at Housing Act
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia On Wednesday, July 10, California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced the … [Read more...]
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Mental Health Stigma Still Affecting African Americans
The NNPA is taking a closer look at the stigma of mental illness in the African American community. This is the first in a series. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire … [Read more...]
Report: Blacks Seven-Times More Likely than Whites to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Blacks are seven-times more likely than Whites to be wrongfully convicted of murder. Further, Black people are three times … [Read more...]
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The Storied History of the Black Press Part II
Purveyors of news and information. Agents of social change. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Langston … [Read more...]
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