As of June 16, 2022, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids reported that 127 localities in California have passed restrictions on the sale of flavored tobacco products....
Black Americans are slightly overrepresented in the statistics. They are 15.5% of those diagnosed with diabetes while being roughly 13% of the nation's population, according to...
One transformative public safety plan is currently moving forward in Ithaca, New York. It will replace the current police department with a new public safety department...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The story of the abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is familiar, as is the civil rights revolution that...
Society’s Cage is an open air, accessible pavilion featuring 500 hanging steel bars that form a cavernous cube with a habitable void allowing visitors to experience...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Because the midterm elections are occurring two years after the last CENSUS count, redistricting is still being decided in several states. Harrison is...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Alice Dunnigan and Ethel Payne, pioneering African American journalists that penned articles for the Chicago Defender, earned recognition from the White House Correspondents...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Pew Research Center conducted an analysis online between Oct. 4, 2021, and Oct. 17, 2021, surveying 3,912 Black U.S. adults and explored...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Whether it is other philanthropists, local or regional health centers, or state and federal officials, there is a desperate need for creative solutions...
A sharp drop in the national unemployment rate for all Americans — down to 3.6% in February — brings the number of people without jobs across...
This year commemorates the landmark enactment of the Fair Housing Act 54 years ago on April 11, 1968. WC of ARPB is the local chapter of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — While the world watched Russia invade Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, some expressed concern about the tens of thousands of international students studying...
“It is important for us to recognize that many critical issues that we are wrestling with today have long, old, and deep historical roots,” said Dr....
We invite all Americans to celebrate Black History Month, too. It is all around us. There’s Black history to learn about in your neighborhoods, at your...
“While HIV/AIDS affect people of all backgrounds, Black Americans have a higher rate of new HIV diagnoses,” said Rep. Barbara Lee. “In 2018, despite comprising just 13% of America’s...
Even as vaccination booster shots are becoming more readily available around the country, the COVID-19 Delta variant remains a significant threat in the U.S. and around...
That statistic bears alarming and costly health consequences, as infants born prematurely are at higher risk for breathing, heart and brain abnormalities, among other complications.
At a vote center, you can vote in person, get help in multiple languages, cast your vote by using an accessible voting machine, and utilize same...
We cannot afford to be complacent and watch like spectators as our rights are rolled back, our interests are ignored, and our power is discounted. This...
However, President Biden’s nominees for these positions exceed the Black share of all of those who were nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate...
Also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, it commemorates the end of slavery, the seminal event in Black history.
The sculptural figures created in all-black steel with vinyl tubing, each standing four feet high, would surround the empty pedestal where a statue of Francis Scott...
And I am not just talking about justice as an idea. I am talking about a Department of Justice that is willing to take on abusive...
In the official GOP response to President Joe Biden’s Joint Speech to Congress last week, Scott offered up his childhood growing up with a single mother...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Fifty years of making a seat at the table and building a pipeline for those to come, and 50 years as the 'Conscience...