Police initially reported that one officer shot at the teenager because he was driving his car at him, but this account has been proven false by a video on social media and authenticated by AFP.
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The theme of the conference and for this 196th anniversary of the Black Press is: The Black Press of America: Amplifying Progress, Excellence, & Voices of Black America.
Among the 536 members of the last sitting Congress, Reuters found that at least 100 have ancestors who were slaveholders.
The Russwurm Award is presented to the top Black-owned newspaper in the country.
2023 NNPA National Convention
Staff Welcomes The NNPA to Nashville Music City
The late Civil Rights Icon and congressman John Lewis will be honored with a Forever stamp by the U.S. Postal Service, CBS News reports.
From Frederick Douglas’ The North Star to Ida B. Wells’ The Memphis Free Press and all subsequent members of the Black press, the plight of African – Americans was chronicled and a beacon of hope was provided through the journalistic efforts and trials of the country’s heroic Black Press. I cannot begin to capture the countless ways that the Black Press acted as the vanguard and the persistent battering ram against forces of oppression in this country. What I would like to do is to act as an eyewitness to the enormous contribution that NNPA member papers made during the last thirty years where I had a bird’s eye view of their reporting.
A Georgia police department is facing backlash after photos surfaced on social media of a Black man’s image being used for target practice.
According to the study, which was conducted by philanthropy research nonprofit Candid and the Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE), HBCUs were given “178 times less funding from foundations” than Ivy League schools in 2019, per BET. Nearly 100 HBCUs only received a total of $45 million, while eight Ivy League schools received $5.5 billion from the nation’s 1,000 largest foundations.