By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide After decades of proposing, planning, fundraising, acquiring over 36,000 artifacts and building hundreds of exhibits illustrating...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Newswire Managing Editor The recent extrajudicial killings of three Black males, including a 13-year-old boy, have sparked protests across the country, and...
By Rosaland Tyler Associate Editor New Journal and Guide There are several reasons why the number of nonfatal domestic violence cases decreased by 63 percent, after...
WASHINGTON, D.C. On September 14, Carla Hayden, 64, the first woman and African-American to head the nation’s largest library, was sworn in for a 10-year term...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Contributor On Friday, September 16, members of the Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee (CBC PAC) took a break from...
By Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League The nation has marked the historic occasion of the first woman in American history to win...
WASHINGTON D.C. Yesterday evening, Congresswoman Donna Edwards joined Samaria Rice and Lucy McBath – the mothers of Jordan Davis and Tamir Rice – and more than...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor The new Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture contains an exhibit that features slave cabins, one that...
By Leonard E. Colvin Chief Reporter New Journal and Guide Today a “computer” is a common tool to calculate and to control every device in our...
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWirecom) President Barack Obama has now weighed in on the Colin Kaepernick National Anthem protest; defending the football player’s right to do...