The Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper won four 2019 Merit Awards during the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) convention held June 25-29, in Cincinnati, Ohio, as the organization celebrated 192 years of the Black Press.
However, of the 24 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for president, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is the only one that has agreed to address key influencers of the African American community — the Black Press of America — at the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) annual convention later this month in Cincinnati.
African American women are twice as likely as Caucasian women to be diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer and 2-3 times more likely to die from this diagnosis.