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Black Women Feel the Brunt of America’s Mass Incarceration

by Stacy M. Brown April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

**FILE** Randall Robinson (left) speaks during a panel session at the Brooklyn Book Festival in 2011. (Editrrix via Wikimedia Commons)

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Randall Robinson: A Champion for Reparations

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. March 30, 2023January 3, 2024

At Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in Northeast, a dozen young men sat down with Becoming A Man affiliates from D.C. and Chicago and D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee to watch a classic episode of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and discuss the themes surrounding it. (Marckell Williams/The Washington Informer)

Program Allows Black Male Students to Speak Candidly with Elders

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. gives the State of the Black Press Address during 2023 Black Press Week. (Mark Mahoney/Dream in Color)

State of the Black Press Address, Breaking News and App Take Center Stage

by Stacy M. Brown March 20, 2023March 21, 2023

Melanie Campbell, the president and CEO of the NCBCP, said that her group was deeply concerned about the proposed cuts to after school programs for poor children, Meals on Wheels for our senior citizens, and clean air and water protections for communities across the country. This photo was taken during the 2016 Black Women’s Roundtable Women of Power National Summit in Washington, D.C. (Freddie Allen/AMG/NNPA)

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Black Women’s Roundtable to Hold 12th Annual ‘Women of Power’ Summit

by WI Web Staff March 13, 2023March 13, 2023

Anacostia artist Yetunde Sapp painted this 8 x 12 ft. mural portrait of Breonna Taylor in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square during Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020. (Justice for Breonna Taylor, Yetunde Sapp, 2020. Paint and spray paint on plywood. Photo by: Patrick Rogan, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Levita Mondie and Yetunde Sapp)

Federal Investigators Find Louisville Police Routinely Call Black People ‘Boy,’ ‘Animal,’ ‘Monkeys’

by Stacy M. Brown March 8, 2023March 8, 2023

**FILE** Kelvin Cochran (Bill Koplitz/FEMA via Wikimedia Commons)

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Former Atlanta Fire Chief Says American Chattel Slavery Was God’s Plan

by Stacy M. Brown March 2, 2023March 2, 2023

**FILE** Pennsylvania state Rep. Joanna McClinton (Courtesy of Gov. Tom Wolf via Wikimedia Commons)

Pennsylvania House Elects First Female Speaker

by WI Web Staff March 2, 2023March 2, 2023

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras J. Baraka, NJIT President Joel S. Bloom and Newark Public Schools Superintendent Roger León pose with students during a press conference in New Jersey. (Courtesy of the City of Newark)

New Jersey Jumps Ahead in Teaching Black History

by Stacy M. Brown March 1, 2023March 1, 2023

Black Experience

African American History Museum to Mark Women’s History Month by Spotlighting Notables in Arts, Entertainment

by WI Web Staff February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

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