Vice President Kamala Harris talks about the importance of this year’s November general election during the National Urban League convention in northwest D.C. on July 22. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
Author: Carma Henry
As Publisher of the Westside Gazette, I have witnessed enough attacks on our communities to recognize a dangerous pattern when I see one. Right now, that pattern is showing itself in the academic arena of our Black universities which are supposed to be the very institutions that have carried us through centuries of exclusion, disrespect, and marginalization.
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Nearly 200 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees are warning that President Donald Trump’s policies could leave the nation vulnerable to a disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a surprising announcement, Howard University President Ben Vinson III, 55, will leave his position as Howard University’s 18th President.
On Aug. 28, in solemn commemoration of the historic 1963 March on Washington, a united coalition of churches and the Black Press led by Dr. Boise Kimber, Bishop J. Drew Sheard, Dr. Samuel C. Tolbert, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr, president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA): The Black Press of America will join Civil Rights icon Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, to lead a protest march on Wall Street in New York City, the epicenter of economic power and privilege. The march will feature prominent religious and Civil Rights leaders and activists, who will speak and much more.
