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The Black Press of America celebrates 195 years of being the voice for the voiceless and the trusted voice for African descendants everywhere. (File photo)
Posted inPolitics

CBC Members Push Biden Admin on Spending Advertising Dollars with Black Media

by Stacy M. Brown May 17, 2022May 17, 2022

Four years after D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton publicly condemned federal agencies for spending very little of their advertising dollars with Black-owned media, another member of the Congressional Black Caucus has openly voiced the same concerns.

Erica Loewe, director of African American Media at the White House (Courtesy of University of Florida)
Posted inNational

Erica Loewe Helps to Open Doors of the White House to the Black Press

by Stacy M. Brown May 11, 2022May 12, 2022
Alice Dunnigan and Ethel Payne are the first recipients of the newly created Lifetime Career Achievement Award named after them by the White House Correspondents' Association. (Courtesy of WHCA)
Posted inNational

Trailblazing Black Press Journalists Remembered With Special White House Correspondents’ Honor

by Stacy M. Brown April 30, 2022May 1, 2022
Posted inNational

Oakland Post: We’ll Keep Our Streak of On-Time Publications Despite Burglary

by Stacy M. Brown March 24, 2022March 24, 2022
The Black Press of America celebrates 195 years of being the voice for the voiceless and the trusted voice for African descendants everywhere. (File photo)
Posted inLifestyle

Still Pleading Our Own Cause, The Black Press Marks 195th Anniversary

by Stacy M. Brown March 23, 2022March 23, 2022
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., National Newspaper Publishers Association president and CEO (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)
Posted inNational

NNPA’s Chavis Tells D.C. Black History Audience to ‘Push Forward’

by James Wright Jr. February 2, 2022February 2, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris strikes an encouraging tone about voting rights. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
Posted inPolitics

VP Harris: Struggle for Voting Rights Has Foreign Leaders Questioning Democracy in U.S.

by Stacy M. Brown January 19, 2022January 19, 2022
Mary Alice Jervay Thatch (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)
Posted inObituary

Mary Alice Jervay Thatch, Freedom Fighter and Publisher of Wilmington Journal, Dies at 78

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent December 29, 2021December 29, 2021
DL Hughley talks to The Washington Informer during the Multicultural Media & Correspondents Association’s awards dinner on Nov. 18. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)
Posted inLifestyle

DL Hughley Shares Timely Insights with D.C.’s Black Press

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor December 1, 2021
Democrats’ dismal advertising record with the Black Press has raised alarms about their overall commitment to Black America. (Courtesy of NNPA)
Posted inNational

Democrats Face Prospect of Losing Long-Standing Black Voter Base

by Stacy M. Brown November 10, 2021December 21, 2021

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