By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. received the highest honor presented by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) at its annual convention in Norfolk, Virginia. The legendary activist received the NNPA Lifetime Legacy Award for his decades of service as one of the country’s foremost civil rights, religious and political ...

By Dianne Anderson Cancer survivors, numbering about 37 million in America, know the drill of what cancer patients are still learning – that diet, exercise, proper nutrition, and the right attitude are essential from the first diagnosis to disease-free. Sonya Adams started her journey five years ago of celebrating cancer survivors after retiring from her ...

By Iqbal Pittalwala   Carolyn B. Murray, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the 2018 Dr. William Montague Cobb award for special achievements in public health at the local level, presented annually by the National Health Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP. The award ...

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved NAACP Riverside Branch President and Community Icon Waudieur “Woodie” Rucker Hughes,” states a press release issued by the branch. Woodie has served as the Riverside chapter’s branch president for close to 20 years. She also recently retired from the Riverside Unified School ...

By Manny Otiko, California Black Media The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has become embroiled in a scandal that is symptomatic of the political problems facing this country. Over the weekend it was revealed that Michael Selyem, a gang prosecutor, made hateful comments about former first lady Michelle Obama and Rep. Maxine Waters. “Being ...

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. President and CEO, NNPA Amid the rush to comprehend the ramifications of a full-scale international trade war initiated by the errant and backward tariff policies of the Trump Administration, there are results of the tariffs that need to be challenged by Black America. The financial sustainability of the Black ...

By Lauren Poteat NNPA Newswire Washington Correspondent As Donald Trump’s persistent “fake news” rhetoric continues to fester in the media, Black publishers across the nation, recently took charge of the conversation, giving way to a special forum entitled “Black Press vs. Fake News.” The forum took place during the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) annual ...

By Dianne Anderson Nothing beats a loan that you never have to pay back. Probably one of the harder tasks for Kathy Baker Brann in the coming months will be giving away a cool $30,000 to homeowners that need help fixing up their properties. The main qualification is the homeowner must be low income. Through ...

By Dianne Anderson For low-income families of the Muscoy area of San Bernardino, some of the biggest barriers are not so much that the resources aren’t available, but rather no one knows where to find them. On Wednesday, July 11, the community won’t have to look far to find out where to get all the ...

By Ron Harris NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist Dear U.S. Media, Democrats, Republicans, Independents and to the concerned Americans who poured out into the streets to protest Donald Trump’s cruel and faulty immigration policies, What about us? We understand and applaud your response to this administration’s malevolent separation of immigrant families from their children—policies and practices so un-American and shocking ...