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Mike Drop: After Joe Biden’s Big Super Tuesday Wins, What’s Next for Bloomberg?

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Democrats turned out in record numbers for Super Tuesday as many are citing their desire to remove President Trump from office as a motivating factor. In the…

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FILM REVIEW: Burden

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Forest Whitaker’s character, Reverend Kennedy, gets involved when the Klan opens up a KKK museum right in the middle of town. Reverend Kennedy fights back not with…

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OP-ED: Ending Workforce Discrimination is Up to Us

NNPA NEWSWIRE — During my tenure at the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), it became clear to me that access was the foundation of economic opportunity. The transportation sector…

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Report: Companies Owned by Women of Color Account for 89 Percent of All New Women-Owned Businesses

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The annual report, based on U.S. Census Bureau data adjusted by Gross Domestic Product data, found that women-owned businesses continue to trend above all others. Over the…

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EXCLUSIVE OP-ED — Sen. Chuck Schumer and Stacy Abrams, ‘It’s Time to Fight Back!’

NNPA NEWSWIRE — This Saturday marks the 55th anniversary of one of the most significant moments in the history of our democracy. On the morning of March 7, 1965, nonviolent…

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COMMENTARY: No War on Poverty — The King Holiday and American Hypocrisy

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The movement in the 1960s won a Civil Rights Act and a Voting Rights Act, but the Poor People’s Campaign was about building on that power to…

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Activists, Parents Cry Foul at Troubled, Mostly Minority New Jersey Middle School

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The report revealed that Penns Grove Middle School Vice Principal Abner Mendoza telephoned the minor several times. While the report did not disclose the nature of the…

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A Louisiana Girl with California Wine

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Darjean Jones is a first-generation winemaker and owner of Darjean Jones Wines. As a student, she researched plants and plant diseases at Southern University and A&M College,…

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Study: African Americans Poorer Today Than Five Years Ago

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I don’t want to get political here, but I would hope that this report would color how people view the approaches that the parties and candidates take…

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There’s a Reason It’s Called ‘Super’ Tuesday

NNPA NEWSWIRE — After South Carolina’s primary victory breathed new life into his then-faltering campaign, Super Tuesday left the former vice president dominating the Democratic field across the southern states.…

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