By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Yogananda Pittman, a Morgan State graduate, takes over as acting Chief of the 2,300-member U.S. Capitol Police just one week after the violent insurrection desecrated American democracy. The riot agitated by President Donald Trump on Jan. 6 resulted in two Capitol Police...
Civil Rights Leaders Join Call for Trump’s Removal Under the 25th Amendment
Congress members who enabled his instigation of a violent coup should be censured, leader say. In the dark shadow of the unsettling violence at the U.S. Capitol instigated Pres. Donald Trump, National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial and National Action Network President Rev. Al Sharpton are calling...
Attorney Ben Crump Wants White Woman Who Attack Black Teen Over Cell Phone Prosecuted
By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump said, “enough is enough.” The famed lawyer has demanded that New York prosecutors bring charges against a white woman who viciously attacked a young African American teen in a hotel lobby after she falsely claimed the youth...
President-Elect Biden Selects Fmr. Ambassador Susan Rice for Top White House Post
With years of experience working at senior levels in the executive branch, Ambassador Susan Rice knows government inside and out and will carry through the President-elect’s vision of a newly empowered Domestic Policy Council and turbocharge the effort to build back better, the Biden transition team wrote in a news...
President-Elect Biden Nominates First Black Secretary of Defense
As CENTCOM commander, he was responsible for military strategy and joint operations throughout the Middle East and Central and South Asia. He was also the architect and oversaw the military campaign’s execution to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. He retired from the military on May 1, 2016...
Biden Taps Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge for HUD Secretary Post
“We are relieved knowing that the same determination Rep. Fudge brought to defending hungry families from cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be brought to tackle one of the biggest looming threats facing Americans during this economic crisis: evictions and housing insecurity,” The CBC offered in a statement....
Evers Family Home Established as National Monument
U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt recently announced the establishment of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi as the 423rd unit of the National Park System. The monument was authorized by the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (P.L. 116-9), which...
Stimulus, Politics and the Risk of More Lives Lost Ahead of Georgia’s Senate Runoff
NNPA NEWSWIRE — About five million people will lose jobless benefits at the end of December, and millions of others could face evictions from their homes because a federal moratorium that was part of the CARES Act will expire on December 31. More than 21 million people also will have...
Congressional Black Caucus Elects Executive Committee for the 117th Congress
By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMeda U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) will chair the Congressional Black Caucus for the 117th Congress. The announcement came as the CBC embarks on its 50th anniversary as the voice of Black America in Congress. Along with Congresswoman Beatty, the CBC announced a...
Biden-Harris Administration Commits to Ensuring Government Spending with Black and Minority-Owned Media Businesses
By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia President-Elect Joe Biden’s administration plans to support legislation offered by District of Columbia Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton that would ensure federal agencies advertise with minority-owned businesses, including the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). “From the racial equity plan – at the...