NNPA NEWSWIRE — Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, an advocate for reproductive rights, supports the Divine 9 campaign, proclaimed that “What we...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Life brings us a myriad of challenges and opportunities. How we navigate them is one of the keys to successful living. Many of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We’re not going to be able to get these days back, so each one of these days we must, with a sense of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Protests and outcry have dominated the political sphere since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, triggering immediate bans on...
Thanks to the anti-democratic Electoral College, Donald Trump was elected in 2016 even though almost 3 million more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton. Republican Senate leader...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We’re talking about another two or three hundred Black women who will die every year simply because they don't have access to abortion...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade statute and effectively taking away reproductive rights, some believe voters are now...
THE ORLANDO ADVOCATE — “A football coach praying by himself on the 50-yard line of the field outside of official gameplay and apart from his official...
NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE — With 10 million African Americans eligible, but unregistered to vote, the National Newspaper Publishers Association and the Transformative Justice Coalition have announced...
The impact of new abortion bans and restrictions will be felt most acutely by poor and working-class Black women — Black women are significantly more likely...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States,” Jackson asserted. “It is an honor...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This last primary election showed that some of us were keeping ourselves from voting. There are 55 million unregistered Americans eligible to vote,...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Americans no longer have a constitutional right to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — One published report said the individual carried a grudge against Kavanaugh because of the leaked draft of an opinion by the U.S. Supreme...
For the most part, the judges who are letting states eliminate access to abortion are the same judges letting states limit voters’ access to the ballot...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — April Ryan covered Obama’s two terms as president and wrote about more history when Kamala Harris became the first Black vice president and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The president noted that shortly after the enactment of Texas law S.B. 8 and other laws restricting women’s reproductive rights, he directed his...
A coalition of civil rights groups has launched the Black History is American History campaign to push back on Gov. Youngkin’s efforts to force teachers and schools to...
A 2020 study done as a part of the RAND Corporation’s Gun Policy in America initiative, revealed that of the 27,900 research publications on the effectiveness...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This is a special day for Black communities and for all Americans and marks the start of a new era for the judicial...
On Feb. 25, President Joe Biden nominated Jackson, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to become the 116th justice on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In questioning Judge Jackson, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham continued the theme of his GOP colleagues, claiming the jurist is weak on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The “soft on crime” strategy wasn’t a new way of weakening the power of Black public officials, but what was new was the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — During the afternoon portion of the hearing, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) attempted to bring decorum, asking Judge Jackson about the significance of her...
The president called on Congress to defend democracy at home by passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, two voting...