By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, @StacyBrownMedia Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder was forced to wonder aloud – on social media and his own website – about racism at a prominent commonwealth school after a black professor was questioned regarding whether she really was a faculty member. “The recent experience at is shocking,” said […]
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Posted inNational News, NEWS
Maxine Waters: If Donald Trump is not Offering Prayers, Sympathy & Assistance to Californians, He Should Keep His Mouth Shut
By NNPA Newswire Correspondent LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) released the following statement on the Camp and Woolsey wildfires in California: “As the Camp and Woolsey Fires continue to blaze a deadly path across the great state of California, resulting in the loss of more than 80 lives and leaving more than 800 people […]
Posted inD.C. Government, National News, NEWS, POLITICS, U.S. Government, Washington D.C. News
REPORT: None of the 28 Top Staffers in House and Senate are People of Color
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia WASHINGTON – The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has released six detailed reports on the troubling lack of racial diversity among the 167 top staff in the Washington, D.C. offices of six congressional delegations – Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia. Of the 12 U.S. […]
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The ‘Roots’ of Slavery and its Lasting Effects
This is Part 6 in a Series on Slavery in America The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. (Read the entire series: Slavery Part 1, Slavery Part 2, Slavery Part 3, Slavery Part 4, Slavery Part 5) By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA […]
Posted inBUSINESS, LIFE & STYLE, National News, NEWS, Travel
Airbnb Offers More than Just a Place to Stay
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia After more than a decade in business, Airbnb has gone beyond being recognized as just a worldwide accommodations platform that folks use as an alternative to hotels. The company was founded in 2008 by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nate Blecharczyk; it’s very first listing was Chesky […]
Posted inARTS & ENTERTAINMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, TV and Film
REVIEW: Amazing Grace
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic Back in the day, if you couldn’t get to church on Sunday to hear the pastor’s sermon, you’d put on Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace album, the best-selling gospel record of all time, and she would give you your spiritual fix. After a long delay, and its share […]
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COMMENTARY: Is the FBI Underreporting the Surge in Hate Crimes?
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The FBI has released it’s 2017 hate crimes statistics which revealed a 17 percent increase in incidents since 2016. In 2017 there were 8,493 victims and 6,307 known offenders. By comparison there were 7,509 victims and 5,727 known offenders in 2016, according to the data. “This report […]
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In Wake of Professor’s Comments, Katherine Johnson is Still Celebrated in Physics
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia For many, the words of a senior scientist who said physics “was invented and built by men,” stung. The words earlier this month of Professor Alessandro Strumia, who was suspended from working with the European nuclear research center, Cern, served as a reminder of the great accomplishments […]