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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)

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

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

Alice Dunnigan, a Kentucky-born granddaughter of slaves, and Ethel Payne, the renowned “First Lady of the Black Press,” received posthumous honors Saturday during the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Education

Howard U. Announces Three WHCA Scholarship Winners

by WI Guest Author May 14, 2021December 21, 2021

**FILE** Kenan Thompson (Courtesy of Stemoc via Wikimedia Commons)

Lifestyle

‘SNL’s’ Kenan Thompson to Host White House Correspondents’ Dinner

by WI Guest Author February 19, 2020December 21, 2021

Urban Radio Network White House Correspondent April Ryan (right) and AARP’s Senior Vice President of Multicultural Leadership Edna Kane Williams (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)

National

NNPA President Represents Black Press at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

by WI Guest Author April 29, 2019December 21, 2021

Columnists, Op-Ed, Opinion, Raynard Jackson

Black Liberals are Hypocrites When It Comes to the N-word

by Raynard Jackson May 2, 2016October 30, 2020