Author Archives: Special Report
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Selected to Deliver Morgan State University December Commencement Address
By Morgan State University Newsroom Morgan State University (MSU) President David Wilson today announced that the senior senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, will be the keynote speaker for the University’s sixth annual December Commencement Exercises, to be held on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. Sen. Warren, who is fresh from a mid-term reelection victory, will deliver her […]
NAACP Calls Mississippi Candidate Hyde-Smith’s Hanging Comments “Sick”
Written by the NNPA BALTIMORE— The NAACP issued the following statement regarding Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith recent statement on being invited to a public hanging. “Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s shameful remarks prove once again how Trump has created a social and political climate that normalizes hateful and racist rhetoric. We’ve seen this in Florida from Ron DeSantis […]
Oscar Buzz Accompanies Release of ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Oscar discussions for “If Beale Street Could Talk” began in earnest after several screenings, including a special premiere screening at New York’s famed Apollo Theater. “ is a timeless work of Black Love set in Harlem,” said Kamilah Forbes, the Apollo Theater’s executive producer. Forbes called the […]
Rihanna and Axl Rose to Donald Trump: Stop Playing Our Music at Your Rallies
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor When a popular singer with 88 million followers on her twitter account sends a message about something bothering her, people tend to notice. When she sends the message less than 72 hours before a crucial midterm election they notice even more. President Trump’s constant use of popular music […]
Vote for Justice, Equality and Democracy
By Camille O. Cosby, Special to NNPA Newswire My husband, Bill Cosby, was recently victimized by a malicious District Attorney and an equally vicious judge. This is not the first time that my husband has been persecuted by corrupt and self-serving politicians. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, Bill Cosby, along with hundreds of […]
COMMENTARY: Three Misconceptions About the Black Vote
By Lynette Monroe, NNPA Black people do vote. Let’s stop perpetuating the myth that Black people don’t vote. Besides, emphasizing negative behavior will not yield positive results. Positive language reinforces positive behavior. While statistics related to health and wealth routinely place Blacks as dead last, when it comes to voting, this is not the case. […]
Chicago Twin Sisters Clear Hurdles to Become Top Doctors
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia They are sisters – twins to be correct – and both are medical doctors and were born and raised in a town in Ohio called Twinsburg, a segregated, lower-income and primarily African American area. Both say they’ve always been drawn to science and excelled academically which led […]
Georgia Election Fight Shows That Black Voter Suppression Still Flourishes
By Frederick Knight, Morehouse College (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued for suppressing minority votes after an Associated Press investigation revealed a month before November’s midterm election that his office has not approved […]
Combating Cancer In Young Women Online
Women from the ages of 18 to 50 are the most active group of adult Internet and social media users. And even though women in this age group are less likely to get breast cancer than older women, it does happen. Now, three southern states are making sure these women have reliable online resources. Tailored […]
AFRO-American Newspaper and Morgan State University Partner to Launch Statewide Polling to Gauge African-American Opinion
AFRO-American Newspaper and Morgan State University Partner to Launch Statewide Polling to Gauge African-American Opinion N.J.-based Braun Research, Inc. and Morgan’s Institute for Urban Research to Survey and Analyze Attitudes of Black Residents Toward Maryland’s Gubernatorial Race, to Start In the run-up to election day in Maryland, Morgan State University President David Wilson and […]
Get Off the Bus!
Seniors on their way to vote early in Jefferson County, Georgia were summarily dismissed from the bus they’d already boarded, Oct. 16. Before they could make their way to their intended polling place, organizer and co-founder of Black Voters Matter, LaTosha Brown, reportedly received a call from a county clerk with concerns, according to a […]