By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia After 25 years working as a White House correspondent, April Ryan has seen it all. Before he became president, Barack […]
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Karine Jean-Pierre Selected as First Black Woman White House Press Secretary
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Karine Jean-Pierre, whose long career in Democratic communications led her to the podium last year as the second Black woman […]
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Changemaker N’Naserri Carew-Johnson Inspired by her Mother and the Disney Dreamers Academy
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia When N’Naserri Carew-Johnson arrived at the Disney Dreamers Academy in 2016, she didn’t realize how much she’d put herself in […]
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Biden’s Focus: Russia, Inflation and Congressional Action on Voting Rights
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia When President Joe Biden took the podium for the annual State of the Union Address, it marked the first time […]
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Disney Dreamers Academy By the Numbers
NNPA Newswire The 2022 Disney Dreamers Academy kicked off at Walt Disney World on Thursday, March 3. The 100 students selected to participate in this year’s event came from across […]
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Destiny’s Child Kelly Rowland Kicks off Disney’s Dreamers Academy
Grammy-winning superstar Kelly Rowland said she knows the importance of dreaming big. The Atlanta-born co-founder of the pop supergroup Destiny’s Child, Rowland, told NNPA Newswire that she was and remained […]
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President Biden Nominates First Black Woman to Serve on Federal Reserve Board of Governors
“President Biden is working to bring long-overdue diversity to the leadership of the Federal Reserve,” Erica Lowe, the White House Director of African American Media, wrote on Twitter. “Lisa D. Cook would be the first Black woman in history to serve on the Board,” Lowe concluded.
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President Biden Proclaims January as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month
The heightened awareness of human trafficking comes on the heels of an HBO documentary that finally spotlighted the world of the Black and Missing Foundation, headed by Washington, D.C., based sister-in-law’s Derrica and Natalie Wilson. The film, BLACK AND MISSING, pulled back the curtain and explored how systemic behaviors and attitudes stem from centuries of deeply rooted racism.
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Grammy Awards Show Canceled, Officials Cite Omicron Variant as Reason
“After careful consideration and analysis with city and state officials, health and safety experts, the artist community and our many partners, the Recording Academy and CBS have postponed the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards Show,” the Academy and CBS officials wrote in a statement on Wednesday, January 5.
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Twitter Finally Shuts Down Account of Racist Congresswoman from Georgia
Greene has repeatedly been the instigator of derisive rhetoric and blatantly false information. She once referred to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as a member of the “Jihad Squad.” Before her election to Congress, Greene visited the Washington, D.C. office of New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and harassed her staff who then summoned the U.S. Capitol Police.