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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Underscores the Importance of Black press
By Ashleigh Fields, Special to the AFRO
Each year the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) honors the top journalism and media professionals in America who...
President Biden Calls Black Press ‘Heroes’ During Pointed and Hilarious White House Correspondents Dinner
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
President Joe Biden proved likely as funny and prescient in his White House Correspondents Dinner remarks...
With Carolyn Bryant’s Death, Where Is Justice for Emmett Till?
By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier, Word in black
Emmet Till deserved to grow old.
If he hadn’t been murdered in Money, Mississippi, on August 28, 1955 — if he had...
Carolyn Bryant Donham, Emmett Till’s False Accuser, Dies at 88
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
The white woman who testified that a Black teenager named Emmett Till had made inappropriate approaches...
Tyre Nichols’ Family Sues Memphis Police Over Beating, Death
By ADRIAN SAINZ and TRAVIS LOLLER, Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The family of Tyre Nichols, who died after a brutal beating by five...