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Have you heard of Andreen Nicole McDonald of Texas? She's young, just 29 years old, pretty, married to a military husband and missing. Like thousands of other black females who've gone missing, there has been no national media coverage of her disappearance. Earlier this month, her husband, Andre McDonald, was arrested in connection to his wife's disappearance. Andreeen is still missing, but presumed dead. Police say that Andre McDonald bought a shovel, an ax, two five-gallon drums of gasoline,...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – NAACP – was founded 110 years ago after a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, Illinois. "Because of the riots in Springfield, that brought about serious conversations and meetings about starting an organization, a national organization, that would try to address racial issues," said Nell Clay, Springfield and central Illinois African American History Museum president. The Springfield race riots took place in Aug...
Victoria Shaw, a Black girl approximately 15 years old, went missing Monday, Feb. 11, in West Hartford, Connecticut. Teandah Slater, Black and also only 15 years old, was reported missing on Thursday, Feb. 7, from Noble Square in Chicago. Areall Murchinson, a 16-year old Black girl, was last seen near the 200 block of West 111th Place, according to a community alert from Chicago police. The three are the most recent to make the dubious and heart-breaking list of missing Black girls – p...
Long before Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and the Internet, Hattie McDaniel knew what it meant to "clap back" against her haters. Upon hearing backlash for film roles where she portrayed a servant – during a time when servants were the only available roles for African Americans in Hollywood – McDaniel remarked, "I'd rather play a maid in the movies than be one in real life. A trailblazer who opened the doors for blacks in Hollywood, McDaniel was the first African American to win an Academy Awa...
Former Tallahassee Mayor and Florida Gubernatorial Candidate, Andrew Gillum, didn't break the kind of news that many publishers, editors and journalists may have wanted at the National Newspaper Publishers Association's (NNPA) annual Midwinter Training Conference in Orlando, but the HBCU graduate did provide the Black Press of America some newsworthy tidbits about what he's doing now and what the future might hold. "Beginning in about two weeks I will be teaching a fellowship at Harvard...
Human and Civil Rights Activist Angela Davis turned 75 on Saturday, Jan. 26, and family, fans, and supporters took to social media and other platforms to salute the freedom fighter and Birmingham, Alabama native. "Today is Angela Davis' birthday and we salute our freedom-fighting sister leader for her genius, wisdom and courage in America and throughout the world," said National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, himself a well-known and lifelong...
It's a campaign that flew quietly under the radar – though the outcome could not only make history but change the dynamics in the United States Senate. Down in the Delta – where the public lynching of African Americans was the rule and not the exception and the Ku Klux Klan was usually law enforcement, judge, jury and executioner – Mike Espy, a black man, has forced a runoff against Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. As stunning as Espy's rise in one of the classic "Good Ole Boys" states, Hyde-...
Doctored or lost tapes and an apparent and open conspiracy has led multiple legal experts to conclude that Bill Cosby's upcoming sentencing on assault charges should be postponed – if not thrown out entirely. "America should be outraged," said Dallas, Texas attorney Paul Saputo. "This kind of information is called 'Brady evidence,' which means evidence that tends to show that a person is innocent." Like numerous others who reacted to an NNPA Newswire exclusive on Monday that revealed a tape p...
On Friday, Sept. 21, a new sculpture of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the first African American woman to receive press credentials to cover the White House and Congress, is scheduled to go on display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. At the unveiling of the sculpture, featured guests are expected to tell the story of this pioneering journalist who rose to the top of her profession despite racist policies that segregated Black journalists and sexist attitudes that severely limited opportunities for...
Popular music's most powerful couple continue to make power moves. Hip-hop superstar Jay Z and his wife, Beyoncé, have announced a new scholarship program that will award 10 scholarships worth $100,000 each to "exceptional" high school seniors who demonstrate financial needs. The award will serve as a dedicated university-based fund for each selected student throughout the duration of the student's enrollment, according to a news release. "This back to school season, students in the On The Run...
While there's at least a perceived growing number of Democrats who say they want to replace California Rep. Nancy Pelosi as the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn has emerged as a favorite among his peers to become the first African American to hold that position. In an exclusive interview with the NNPA Newswire, the 25-year congressman said that, while he's ready for the challenge, Democrats currently have much bigger fish to fry. "The first...
Aretha Franklin, arguably the greatest voice in music history, reportedly is gravely ill. Family members and her closest companions have gathered at her bedside for a final round of goodbyes, with one telling the NNPA Newswire, "Long Live the Queen." "She will be so missed as a mother, sister, friend, cousin," said longtime friend Roger Friedman, who also covered the Queen of Soul for decades and originally broke the story about her cancer fight on showbiz411.com. "Her legacy is larger than...
On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his prophetic but inspirational "I've Been to the Mountaintop," speech at the historic Masonic Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. One day later, the famous civil rights champion was assassinated. While gunman James Earl Ray's bullet silenced the legendary leader, his legacy continues to live on through contemporaries like Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. and organizations like the NAACP. Younger organizations, like Color of Change have picked up the...
