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By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor Miss New York Nia Franklin reacts after being named Miss America 2019, as she is crowned by last year’s winner Cara Mund, on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, in […]

SOURCE: BlackPressUSA.com Saying his subject was “Aretha the Queen of Soul,” Rev. Jasper Williams of the Salem Bible Church in Atlanta gave the audience gathered for Aretha Franklin’s funeral a few unexpected memories laced with […]

By Roland Martin, BlackChristiannews.com   What rankles black folks [about the black pastors who met with the president at the White House a few weeks ago] is the genuflecting to the feet of Trump, and […]

While there’s at least a perceived growing number of Democrats who say they want to replace California Rep. Nancy Pelosi as the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn has […]

Our nation’s graduation rate is at an all-time high. The national figure shows 84 percent of young people, overall, graduating from high school within four years after first entering the 9th grade, a trend that […]

The next speaker of the House could be a black Democrat. And Congress would never be the same. In 230 years, there’s never been a black speaker, or any black lawmaker seriously in the running […]

As teams gear up for the NFL season, President Trump is reviving his destructive and diversionary attacks aimed at turning fans against players. The league office stepped in it, by unilaterally declaring that players who […]

  Montgomery, AL –Several weeks ago, someone called our law office multiple times and threatened to kill Faya Rose Toure. The same person also called the Z105.3 FM radio station and threatened to kill Faya […]

Former CIA Director John Brennan described US President Donald Trump’s failure to acknowledge Russia’s election meddling in a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday as “treasonous.” Two experts in constitutional law […]

When Dr. Ben Carson was named Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), many housing and civil rights advocates wondered how a world-renowned neurosurgeon would direct the future of housing in America. […]