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**FILE** Signs sit behind the podium before the start of a press conference with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to announce a multi-state lawsuit to block the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census form, at the headquarters of District Council 37, New York City's largest public employee union, April 3, 2018 in New York City. Critics of President Donald Trump's administration's decision to reinstate the citizenship question contend that that it will frighten people in immigrant communities from responding to the census. The Trump administration has stated a citizenship question on the census will help enforce voting rights. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Black Experience, National

Citizenship Question Could Hurt Census Count of Black America

by WI Guest Author February 12, 2019October 31, 2020

The Constitution requires that America’s decennial census count all persons residing in the United States, not just citizens, a clearly stated objective now at risk.

Keli Hammond holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising from Temple University and a certification in change leadership from Cornell University. (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)

American Dream Remains Deferred for Black Millennials

by WI Guest Author February 4, 2019October 31, 2020

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby reacts while being notified a verdict was in in his sexual assault retrial, Thursday, April, 26, 2018, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. A jury convicted the "Cosby Show" star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury deadlocked on the charges. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)

Lawyers Blast Cosby Conviction: ‘Backwoods Justice’

by Stacy M. Brown July 26, 2018October 31, 2020

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Black Experience, Community

Traffic Cameras More Prevalent in Black D.C. Neighborhoods

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer July 3, 2018October 31, 2020

Black Experience

People of Color Are Less Likely to Receive a Raise at Work When They Ask

by WI Guest Author June 7, 2018October 31, 2020

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby departs the courtroom during the fifth day of deliberations in Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on June 16, 2017. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters, Pool)

BROWN: Cosby Case, #MeToo and White Women

by Stacy M. Brown May 2, 2018October 31, 2020

MALONE: How the Young Black Male’s Psyche Fuels Black-on-Black Violence

by WI Guest Author April 4, 2018October 31, 2020

Black Experience, National

Higher-Income Black Women More Likely Subjected to Police Force: Study

by WI Guest Author February 27, 2018October 31, 2020

Viola Davis at 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2015

Viola Davis Demands to be Paid Her Worth

by WI Guest Author February 20, 2018October 31, 2020

Supporters of the Blueprint for Black Women met at Seward Square and Black Women for Racial Justice met at Lincoln Park in Southeast where they converged in a March for Black Women, walking to the Justice Department and ending on the National Mall on Sept. 30. The march was held 20 years after the Million Women March to bring attention to the injustices Black women face. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience, National

March for Black Women Takes Over D.C. Streets

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer October 4, 2017October 31, 2020