Karen Carter Richards
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Star-Studded Lineup Planned for First Black Press Virtual Convention
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation and rescheduling of many events. For the first time in the 80-year history…
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Black Press Establishes Coronavirus Pandemic Task Force and Resource Center
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the trade association of African American-owned newspapers and media companies, is responding to the…
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Black Press of America Celebrates 193 Years of Freedom-Fighting Journalism
From Freedom’s Journal to The North Star to John Abbott’s Chicago Defender, African American-owned newspapers have sparked fires for truth…
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Black Press of America Awards Courageous Leaders
With a lively and capacity crowd inside the Renaissance DC Downtown Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, National Newspaper Publishers…
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Houston Forward Times Publisher Continues Parents’ Legacy
Karen Carter Richards was about 22 when she surmised that her mother really needed her assistance.
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Bernal Smith, Bright Light of the Black Press, Dies at 45
Bernal E. Smith II, president and publisher of the Tri-State Defender and a well-known civic leader in Memphis, Tenn., died…
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Lenora ‘Doll’ Carter Enshrined in NNPA Hall of Fame
The ceremony proved almost as impressive as the honoree.
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New NNPA Officers Elected; Denise Rolark Barnes Elected Chair
DETROIT (NNPA) – Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of the Washington Informer, has been elected chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association,…
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