Local News

Broward Education Foundation’s Publix Super Markets Charities 2022 BIG 10 Hall of Fame Awards Honored Exceptional Business, Community and Education Leaders

Now in its 40th year of supporting teachers and students, Broward Education Foundation recognized distinguished leaders in business, education and the community who are alumni of Broward County Public Schools during the 10th annual Publix Super Markets Charities 2022 BIG 10 Hall of Fame Awards presented by Memorial Healthcare System. […]

National News

PRESS ROOM: Walgreens Launches Free Paxlovid Delivery Services With DoorDash and Uber

This initiative is aimed at increasing access to COVID-19 treatment, with a focus on reaching those in socially vulnerable or medically underserved areas at a time when COVID-19 cases are beginning to rise again across the United States. According to Walgreens COVID-19 Index data, overall positivity rates reached 36 percent this week. This steady rise in cases reinforces the critical need for access to life-saving treatments. […]

Opinions

Proposed Journalism Competition Preservation Act Negative Impact on Small Minority-Owned Newspapers

Many African American and other BIPOC news outlets are independently owned. Furthermore, these news outlets have developed and grown their audiences because mainstream media publications excluded the perspectives of minority voices. The Black Press built our own news outlets to support our own voices. As a result, this legislation would only further reinforce harmful racial exclusion trends, rather than actually help smaller local publications like those in the NNPA. […]

Opinions

Supreme Court Conservative Justices’  Foul Pedigree

 Before addressing  Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito’s, Kavanaugh’s and Thomas’s pedigree , it’s vital that I remind you of the Supreme Court’s  past reprehensible  racists pedigree. The  foul pedigree  of the Supreme Court of Chief Justice Taney of 1835 influenced their  decision in the case of Dred Scott v. John Sanford as well as other cases. […]

Opinions

The Significance of a Black Man Winning a Georgia Senate Seat

     In early September 1868, two months after Georgia’s readmission to the Union, its state legislature expelled 30 of its Black representatives. The federal government interceded in 1870, two years after the attack on Black representatives, to make Georgia seat its Black representatives. Many thought this was a good policy for the government to take, but it was hardly a solution. […]