Koch industries

Black Press of America Awards Courageous Leaders

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentSeptember 19, 2019

The 2019 honorees are the Honorable Karen Bass, U.S. Representative (D-CA); the Honorable Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Representative (D-MD); the Honorable Bobby Scott, U.S. Representative (D-VA); the Honorable Bennie Thompson, U.S. Representative (D-MS); Ray Curry, Secretary-Treasurer of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agriculture (UAW); Shani W. Hosten, Vice President Multicultural Leadership, AARP; Dr. Kim Smith-Whitley, Clinical Director of Hematology and Director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP); and Crystal Windham, Director, Cadillac Interior Design, General Motors.

Former Inmate Shares His Journey from Ex-Convict to Entrepreneur

Kimberlee Buck, Contributing WriterAugust 29, 2019

In 2017, the Sentencing Project reported that one in three Black men in the U.S. will be arrested during their lifetime. After completing their sentence, many of these Black men will commit another crime and return to prison.

Dr. Ben Chavis Opinion

Criminal Justice Reform Long Overdue for Black America

Dr. Benjamin ChavisNovember 29, 2018

For 40 long years, until North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue signed “Pardons of Innocence” documents for each member of the Wilmington Ten (including myself), the issues of unjust and disproportionate mass incarceration, bail reform, racism in the judiciary, prosecutorial misconduct, and reentry challenges were not matters of partisanship, but were matters of fundamental civil and human rights.

National News

HBCU Students Speak with Charles Koch During Thurgood Marshall College Fund Luncheon

Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire ContributorNovember 30, 2016

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) held its annual fundraising gala recently in Washington, D.C.