Have you seen Iniaya Wilson? Just 14, Iniaya has been missing from her Columbus, Ohio home since January 25. She’s African American, has brown hair and brown eyes; standing 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 120 pounds. Have you seen Skylar Mannie? From Lancaster, Calif., Skylar is also Black and just 13 years old. […]
The nation’s first African-American Neuroscience Research Initiative, aimed at ensuring that genomic research and neuroscience studies are representative of individuals across all populations including African ancestry, launched today. This new enterprise partners the African-American Clergy Medical Research Initiative, comprised of prominent clergy leaders of the Minister’s Conference of Baltimore, with the Lieber Institute for Brain […]
NABJ President Sarah Glover said she’s stunned that CNN canceled a planned meeting to discuss the importance of diversity and Black representation within the ranks of the network’s executive news managers and those who report directly to the cable channel’s president Jeff Zucker. “It’s a moral issue,” Glover told NNPA Newswire in an interview on […]
It may be a job seekers’ market, but candidates still need to have everything buttoned up for their search — including a solid reference list — or risk being passed over. In a new survey from global staffing firm Accountemps, senior managers reported they remove approximately one in three candidates (34 percent) from consideration for […]
Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro isn’t ruling out direct payments to African-Americans for the legacy of slavery – a stand separating him from his 2020 rivals. “If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property,” the former Obama-era housing secretary and ex-San Antonio mayor said […]
National results show that college completion patterns among Black, Hispanic, white, and Asian four-year, public starters vary widely across states, according to a new nationwide report recently released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The Research Center’s Completing College: A State-Level View of Student Completion Rates, which includes for the first-time, state-level completion results […]
Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died on Feb. 17 in Charleston, S.C. He was 73. His wife, Dr. Diane Rowley, said the cause was complications of sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease. […]
During a surprise wine tasting at the San Francisco Delta Sky Club, Delta Tuesday announced a new partnership with Brown Estate, the first and only black-owned estate winery in California’s Napa Valley. And as a toast to Black History Month, Brown Estate made its first onboard appearance yesterday in a surprise in-flight tasting for customers […]
Bennett College, the women-only historically black institution that spent the last three months fighting to remain open, lost its appeal on Friday to keep its accreditation. The accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges, affirmed its December decision to terminate the accreditation of the college, in Greensboro, N.C. Following the announcement, […]
An African-American woman is now the publisher and editor of the Alabama newspaper that recently urged the Ku Klux Klan to “night ride again,” the paper said. Elecia R. Dexter, a “strategic leader with expertise in human resources, operations and change management,” took up the positions Thursday, the weekly Democrat-Reporter of Linden said in a […]
