‘The fight for the ballot is as old as the Republic.’
Stacy M. Brown
Stacy M. Brown is the NNPA Newswire senior national correspondent. I'm the co-author of Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway and her son, Stevie Wonder (Simon & Schuster) and Michael Jackson: The Man Behind The Mask, An Insider's Account of the King of Pop (Select Books Publishing, Inc.) My work can often be found in the Washington Informer, Baltimore Times, Philadelphia Tribune, Pocono Record, the New York Post, and Black Press USA.
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World dignitaries react to death of Bishop Desmond Tutu
‘Archbishop Tutu was grounded in the struggle for liberation and justice in his own country, but also concerned with injustice everywhere.’
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White House, Dems furious over Sen. Manchin’s Build Back Better betrayal
While the GOP has blocked the popular Build Back Better bill, the most consequential “no vote” came from a Democrat.
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Keechant Sewell named first woman to lead NYPD
Keechant Sewell becomes the first woman and third African American to lead the 55,000-person department.
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Former ‘Empire’ star Jussie Smollett found guilty of staging attack
The jury convicted the ‘Empire’ star on five counts of disorderly conduct related to filing a false police report on January 29, 2019.
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Tiger Woods announces return to golf
Tiger Woods returns to golf with his son, Charlie, in the PNC Championship in Orlando, Florida, on December 18.
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President Biden announces new actions to combat COVID-19 and new omicron variant
‘We have more tools today to fight the omicron variant than we have had to fight previous variants, including delta.’
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Stacey Abrams’ governor run provides a jolt for the 2022 midterms
‘I’m running because opportunity in our state shouldn’t be determined by zip code, background, or access to power.’
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Pioneering Black golf champ Lee Elder dies at 87
Lee Elder, a golfing pioneer, and the first Black player to compete in the Masters has died at 87.
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After guilty verdicts, civil rights leaders exhort Black America to ‘never stop running for Ahmaud!’
A jury convicted Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan of felony murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery,
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Jury finds all three defendants guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery
A jury has found all three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery guilty of murder after 10 hours of deliberations.
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Malcolm X daughter, Malikah Shabazz, found dead in New York
Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of cultural and human rights icon Malcolm X, was found dead inside her Brooklyn home on Monday, November 22.
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Groveland Four cleared of 1949 false rape allegations
‘This Thanksgiving, we can have an entirely different atmosphere without this hanging over our head.’
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Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty of all charges
Kyle Rittenhouse escaped punishment in the shooting deaths of two men during the unrest that followed the 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Oklahoma Governor commutes Julius Jones’ death sentence
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt issued a last-minute decision to commute the death sentence of Julius Jones.
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Investigators exonerate men convicted in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X
Two men found guilty of the assassination of Malcolm X are expected to have their convictions thrown out on Thursday, according to reports.
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Lawsuits pile up in aftermath of Travis Scott’s deadly Astroworld fest
The youngest victim of the Astroworld fiasco was nine-year-old Ezra Blount.
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Defense rests in Kyle Rittenhouse trial after Judge makes clear which side he’s on
Both sides are expected to conclude with closing arguments, which are expected to begin Monday, November 15. Regardless of the outcome, many might remember the trial for the shenanigans of Judge Bruce Schroeder.
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Judge injects self into Kyle Rittenhouse trial as defendant testifies
Judge Bruce Schroeder, who pretrial ruling that those shot by Rittenhouse cannot be labeled as victims, halted Binger’s cross-examination, and angrily questioned the prosecutor’s tactics.
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Defendants in Ahmaud Arbery case say slavery-era law enabled them to arrest, shoot Black man
Travis McMichael, 35, his father, Gregory McMichael, 65, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, plans to defend their actions by claiming they were making a citizens’ arrest that went awry only after Arbery resisted.