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NNPA President Extols the Black Press, Black Voters at NAACP Convention
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NNPA President Extols the Black Press, Black Voters at NAACP Convention

Stacy Brown, NNPA NewswireJuly 26, 2018

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), delivered a rousing speech about the importance of the Black Press and the Black vote, during the 109th NAACP Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas. The NNPA is a trade group that represents more than 200 Black-owned newspapers and media companies in the United States. NNPA member publications reach more than 20 million readers, combined, in print and online, every week. NNPA Board Chairman Dorothy Leavell and a several other NNPA members also attended the convention. “I can’t think of a better place to

“Conscience of the Nation” Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., Honored with 2018 Lifetime Legacy Award
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“Conscience of the Nation” Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., Honored with 2018 Lifetime Legacy Award

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA NewswireJuly 5, 2018

  Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. received the highest honor presented by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) at its annual convention in Norfolk, Virginia. The legendary activist received the NNPA Lifetime Legacy Award for his decades of service as one of the country’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. After a video tribute that chronicled Jackson’s life and a surprise solo performance of “Hero,” by Jackson favorite, Audrey DuBois Harris, the iconic preacher accepted the award from NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., and NNPA Chairman Dorothy R. Leavell. “I’m not easy to surprise,” Jackson

Trump Revokes Obama Guidance on Race in School Admissions
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Trump Revokes Obama Guidance on Race in School Admissions

Eric Tucker, Associated PressJuly 5, 2018

The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded Obama-era guidance that encouraged schools to take a student’s race into account to promote diversity in admissions. The shift suggests schools will have the federal government’s blessing to leave race out of admissions and enrollment decisions, and it underscores the contentious politics that continue to surround affirmative action policies, which have repeatedly been challenged before the Supreme Court. The admissions memos were among 24 policy documents revoked by the Justice Department for being “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the changes an effort to restore the