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TV One Cancels Roland Martin’s NewsOne Now
By Stacy M. Brown (The Washington Informer/NNPA Member)
The only Black daily newscast on television is no more.
TV One is canceling Roland Martin’s morning show “NewsOne Now” due to budget cuts.
“They called a meeting on Wednesday and told the staff they were canceling the show....
CNN Money: African American Coder Blazes Trail in Tech
Black entrepreneurs make up a tiny percentage of the tech workforce. Gregory Lowe started out with no formal coding education or investor-relation training, but is now the designer of multiple successful mobile applications.
CBC Members Met with FBI Director Christopher Wray about the FBI’s Controversial “Black Identity Extremists” Report. This Is What They Learned.
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor)
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray failed to explain why the agency he leads changed the name of a domestic terrorism designation from “Black Separatist Extremists” to “Black Identity Extremist,” during a recent meeting with a group of Congressional...
Poll: 70 percent of Marketplace Enrollees Satisfied with Obamacare
By Freddie Allen (Editor-In-Chief, NNPA Newswire)
As President Donald Trump continues to sow confusion about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, shows that, although some of his tactics are working, many consumers still plan on signing up for...
You Better Watch Your Mouth: Dental Care in the Black Community
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist)
From the time I was a little girl, to just a day or so ago, someone has always told me to watch my mouth. Why? My mouth runs and sometimes it runs unplugged. I’ve been known to flim flam...
Film Review: Another stellar performance by Denzel elevates ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’ above source material
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic)
Denzel Washington may be the most accomplished actor of our generation. Like a chameleon, he’s morphed from the stern father in “Fences” to a dorky, introverted attorney in this meandering crime-drama/thriller. His talent is more than enough reason...
Bishop William J. Barber II to Meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thanksgiving Day
By Cash Michaels (The Wilmington Journal/NNPA Member)
In an exclusive interview with The Wilmington Journal, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, the president of Repairers of the Breach, a nonpartisan, nonprofit social advocacy group, has confirmed that he and a delegation of “moral, workers’ rights,...
NAACP Set to Change Tax Status to Engage More Politically
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor)
After being eclipsed in recent years by Color of Change, Black Lives Matter and other younger, more tech savvy and politically-pointed groups, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization will change its tax status.
The group’s leaders said...
Why Black Faith Leaders Must Lead the Fight for Healthcare Access
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist)
First of all, despite the Trump Administration’s efforts to kill (“repeal and replace”) the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is still the law of the land, and because of the federal mandate, everyone is required to have some form...
Bernal E. Smith II: A bright light of The Black Press
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor)
The National Newspaper Publishers Association lost one of its own this week with the death of Bernal E. Smith II, publisher of The New Tri-State Defender and a well-respected member of the NNPA.
Mr. Smith, 45, died on Sunday...