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<img width="1400" height="730" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.blackpressusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/shirley-chisholm-featured-web.jpg?fit=1400%2C730&ssl=1" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Shirley Chisholm, future member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY), announcing her candidacy, 25 January 1972, Thomas J. O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Reports. Light restoration by Adam Cuerden" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.blackpressusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/shirley-chisholm-featured-web.jpg?w=1400&ssl=1 1400w,...

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Through the campaign, volunteers will download a mobile app and chat with voters to get out the vote, with hopes of reaching 600K infrequent Black American voters, during this critical election period. (Photo: NAACP)   NAACP By Lauren Poteat NNPA Washington Correspondent With election day quickly approaching, the NAACP...

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(Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA) NNPA NEWSWIRE — With the midterm elections just weeks away, activists and others are keeping keen eyes on any semblance of voter suppression – or worse. For Crystal Mason of Rendon, Texas, “worse” took the form of the 2016 presidential election....

By Nsenga Burton Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Contributor The world is mourning the loss of legendary choreographer Arthur Mitchell. Mitchell, who danced with the New York City Ballet from 1956-1968 and founded the groundbreaking and world renown Dance Theater of Harlem died Wednesday of heart failure. Jennifer Dunning...

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire While there's at least a perceived growing number of Democrats who say they want to replace California Rep. Nancy Pelosi as the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn has emerged as a favorite...

Consumers who bought phony green coffee weight-loss pills have another chance at a refund. The Federal Trade Commission is sending out checks to 38,000 people who bought green coffee extract in retail stores, a couple of years after it settled a case against two companies...

From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry) Stone, James A., Sr. (born: 1829  -  died: 1862) James A. Stone, Sr. was a fugitive slave from Kentucky who had settled in Lorain, Ohio. He is listed in the 1850 U.S. Federal Census with no indication of...