Food boxes were regularly distributed at sites across North Texas during the final months of President Trump’s administration. However, the program’s contracts with agencies who deliver food boxes expires at the end of April. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA) NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Howell Foundation has distributed more than 2400 USDA fresh food boxes – about […]
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SCLC wants President Joe Biden to use executive order to restore the gutted 1965 Voting Rights Act with expansion
Last week, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law legislation that provides greater voting oversight and restriction, such as requiring ID for absentee voting, earlier deadlines for absentee ballots and limited drop boxes for absentee ballots where law enforcement authorities are seated next to the drop boxes. (Photo Credit: Courtesy of SCLC via NNPA) THE […]
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Black women’s voices take center stage at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
International leaders and activists promoted strategies for grassroots action to inform, prevent, and address violence against women including intimate partner-based violence, physical and mental abuse. NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the United States, there are more than 600,000 to 800,000 people being trafficked annually across international borders and 40% percent of sex trafficking victims are Black […]
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OP-ED: On Bloody Sunday’s 56-year mark, President Biden’s words remind Americans that democracy needs a renewed push for voting rights
In many cases, the same baseless and thinly-veiled rationales used to challenge ballot access in the 1960s are resurfacing today in support of these efforts to shrink our democracy. Top left: Alabama police attack Selma to Montgomery marchers, known as “Bloody Sunday,” in 1965 Top right: Marchers carrying the banner “We march with Selma!” down […]
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NNPA Black Press Week, March 18-19, focuses on Black Businesses
NNPA Virtual Boack Business Challenges Black Business: Challenges, Responsibilities and Opportunities Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic Considering the challenges facing Black Businesses and the Black Press as a result of COVID-19, the National Newspaper Publishers Association Fund Black Press Week will zero in on the theme “BLACK BUSINESS Challenges, Responsibilities, and Opportunities Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic.” The two-day […]
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COMMENTARY: The future of America is people of color
As America shifts under the administration of Biden, the majority in the Democratic Party will be people of color (POC). This makes sense as it reflects the commonality of America, and the fight is for racial equity, and respect for people as human beings (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA) NNPA – There is a diversity explosion […]
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BHERC call for entries for the 28th annual “Sistas Are Doin’ it for Themselves” short film fest
The BHERC “Sistas Are Doin’ It For Themselves” Short Film Festival continues to bring to an international audience, outstanding shorts created by Black Female Directors online at BHERC.TV. (Image courtesy NNPA) By NNPA THE LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Normally a live event, “Sistas” streams online for the second year due to the pandemic. However, participants […]
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EPCOT unveils ‘The Soul of Jazz: An American Adventure’ exhibit at The American Adventure Pavilion
New experience at Walt Disney World Resort takes guests on a musical tour across America with Joe Gardner from Disney and Pixar’s ‘Soul.’ “The Soul of Jazz: An American Adventure” debuted Feb. 1, 2021, at The American Adventure inside EPCOT at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. This new exhibit features artifacts […]
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Inside the success of Workshops Empowerment Inc.’s jobs program
Kinisha Bester works with nuts and bolts at Workshops Empowerment Inc. in Avondale. (Marvin Gentry, For the Birmingham Times) THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES via NNPA — WE Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Birmingham’s Avondale community, offers a broad range of vocational rehabilitation services geared toward helping people with disabilities become employed. It also has programs […]
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Op-ed: Talking about death won’t kill you
Although death is inevitable for all of us, there is often a stigma around talking about it at our dinner tables NNPA NEWSWIRE — Part of the reason African Americans are often overtreated at the end of life relates to our experiences being denied care by a racist healthcare system. We may ask for and […]
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NBA legend Isiah Thomas sets up to dominate the pan-American cannabis space
Thomas’ ISIAH International is a holding company with interests in a diversified portfolio of companies NNPA NEWSWIRE — Superstar and NBA Icon Isiah Thomas, whose Cheurlin Champagne is one of the best-selling in the world, announced that his company, ISIAH International, LLC, will invest $3 million into One World Pharma, Inc., a U.S. based, fully […]
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Leads U.S. Reparations Bill H.R. 40
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I think if people begin to associate this legislation with what happened to the descendants of enslaved Africans as a human rights violation, the sordid past that violated the human rights of all of us who are descendants of enslaved Africans, I think that we can find […]