NNPA NewsWire
FILM REVIEW: The Upside
by Dwight Brown -- NNPA News Wire Film Critic --
On paper, a story about a low-income black health-care aid who’s befriended by a rich white male quadriplegicsounds suspect. Patronizing films like Driving Miss Daisy come to mind, and potential filmgoers upon hearing the plotline...
FILM REVIEW: ‘Vice’
by Dwight Brown, NNPA News Wire Film Critic
It was an historic power grab. Not the Republicans taking back the White House after a controversial, razor-thin win by George W. Bush over Al Gore. It was the vice president-elect, Dick Cheney, out-maneuvering George Jr. and...
Congressman Booker thankful for support in the passage of historic anti-lynching bill
by Stacy M. Brown
Cory Booker was so moved by the unanimous passage of a historic – and long overdue – bill to make lynching a federal crime that he was stirred to quote Maya Angelou.
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if...
OP-ED: Because of the CBC, the Farm Bill Includes Millions for HBCUs, Black Farmers, and Rural Communities of Color
By Congressman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-02), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus
In 1986, on her award-winning “Control” album, singer-songwriter Janet Jackson asked: “What have you done for me lately?” This is a question the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is asked a lot. Well, here’s...
From slavery to civil rights to environmental racism
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) earlier this year launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. This is the latest segment in the series.
by Stacy M. Brown
WASHINGTON, DC – Decades ago, Civil Rights...
COMMENTARY: Open Letter from Michelle Obama–Exclusively for The Chicago Defender
By Michelle Obama
In the summer of 1975, Dr. Joseph A. Lavizzo, Jr., the principal at Bryn Mawr Elementary School in South Shore at the time, wrote a letter to this newspaper. In it, he defended his school from a vitriolic opinion piece that had...
From Foster Care to Miss D.C.
By Micha Green
Cordelia Cranshaw was crowned Miss District of Columbia USA on Dec. 8, yet her road to queen was not easy. Having already worked to empower young people through her own story and growth, Cranshaw is now using her platform to further inspire...
AARP Poll: Majority of caregivers with family suffering from dementia, spend less time with friends
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent
@StacyBrownMedia
For family caregivers, the holidays can be a joyful time when spirits are lighter and it feels good to care for loved ones and enjoy time together, celebrating with family traditions.
But for most family caregivers, the holidays also...
COMMENTARY: FORGET THE HUDDLED MASSES
By The Crusader
Just about everyone in the United States, with the exception of the indigenous people, Native Americans, came here from somewhere else. They came here in the quest for a better life. The main exception to this are African Americans, who, for the...
EXCLUSIVE: Camille Cosby Speaks to the Black Press About Hate Groups, Racism, History and Voting Rights
by Stacy M. Brown
NEW YORK -- Racism and prejudice are omnipresent and internalized within America’s institutions, media and myriad entities. One example can be traced to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, according to Camille Cosby, wife of imprisoned Bill Cosby.
The intensely private Mrs....