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Stopping the Exploitation of Prisoners and Their Families Requires More Comprehensive Solutions
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Stopping the Exploitation of Prisoners and Their Families Requires More Comprehensive Solutions

Dr. Ben ChavisDecember 9, 2020

2020 brought renewed global focus to issues of social justice in America.  From the racial disparities and inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic to the killings of George Floyd and so many other Black and Brown Americans at the hands of police officers have all contributed to the evolving social justice “reckoning” across the nation. . As part of this long overdue redress about institutional and systemic racism, renewed attention should also be focused on the many injustices within the U.S. correctional system. Black and Brown Americans are disproportionately imprisoned in the United States. Much of the public outrage has been directed

Flying While Black: Stop the U.S. Congress from Raising Air Travel Taxes
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Flying While Black: Stop the U.S. Congress from Raising Air Travel Taxes

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.September 12, 2019

“The tax, known as the passenger facility charge, is a locally enforced but federally authorized fee that every passenger must pay at U.S. commercial airports. Nearly every airport in America charges it. The fee is currently set at $4.50 per person per leg of a trip. Legislation has been introduced that would remove that cap, allowing airports to charge any amount they want.”

NNPA Hosts National Black Parents Town Hall
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NNPA Hosts National Black Parents Town Hall

Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor)June 22, 2017

In an on-going effort to increase awareness about the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA) in the Black community, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) hosted a national town hall for Black parents at the National Harbor in Prince George’s County, Md.

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Misty Copeland Danced Her Way to the Top By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA ColumnistSeptember 9, 2015

Fighting for freedom and equality comes in numerous different forms, vessels and vocations, particularly in a society with a history of stereotypical distortions about human capacity and ability based on race and ethnicity. Therefore, it is important to note whenever there is an irrefutable exposure of some of those false myths and caricatures.