TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Cory Booker won a special election Wednesday to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, giving the rising Democratic star a bigger political stage […]
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Black Ministers Slam State Governors’ Resistance to Obamacare
Governors who refuse to expand their state Medicaid programs to accommodate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are “doing an extreme disservice to their citizens,” the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) […]
Md. in Violation of HBCU Students’ Constitutional Rights
In a historic, 60-page decision Oct. 7, a federal court judge ruled that Maryland violated its constitutional commitment to dissolving vestiges of segregation in higher education by allowing traditionally White […]
Sisters Question Police Actions in Deadly DC Chase
NEW YORK (AP) — A sister of the woman shot to death by police in Washington after trying to ram her car through a White House barrier says there were […]
Mother: Daughter in Capitol Chase was Depressed
NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of a Connecticut woman who was shot to death by police after trying to breach a barrier at the White House said her daughter […]
GOP’s shutdown debacle resembles our first in 1879!
Today’s shutdown crisis has an eerily familiar predecessor. It echoes America’s first battle over a government shutdown, which came not in the 20th century, but rather, shortly after the Civil […]
Jesse Jackson: U.S. Must Make Next Move to Return Vet from Colombia
HAVANA, Cuba (NNPA) – Jesse Jackson says now that Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos has rejected an unconditional offer from rebels to turn over a captured former military veteran to […]
Cruz Controlled
WASHINGTON (AP) — A potential federal shutdown hurtling ever closer, the Senate dealt an emphatic defeat to a core of rebellious young conservatives Friday and approved legislation preventing government agencies […]
Evelyn Lowery, Civil Rights Icon, Wife of SCLC Leader, Dies at 88
Evelyn Lowery, a civil rights and womens’ empowerment movement pioneer and the wife of Rev. Joseph P. Lowery, Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader, died Sept. 26, at the family home […]
Shutdown Devastation Major Capitol Hill Concern
The extreme partisanship that has plagued Washington, D.C., for the past four years is dragging America to the brink of disaster—again. Republicans and Democrats currently are engaged in high-stakes negotiations […]
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Convention Draws Thousands to D.C.
If numbers make an event a success, then day two of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual convention was just that. The halls and conference rooms of the Walter E. […]
White Sororities Reverse, Now Admitting Black Students at University of Alabama
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Black women are joining traditionally White sororities at the University of Alabama amid efforts to end racial segregation within Greek-letter social groups, the head of the […]