Civil rights giant saluted by five governors on 100th birthday

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RICHMOND (NNPA)?Oliver W. Hill (left), a lead attorney in the Davis vs. Prince Edward County School Board case of Brown vs. Board of Education, turned...

Nicotine addiction as potent as cocaine, heroin

By Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Washington Correspondent

Editor's Note: More than a half million African Americans have died from smoking-related diseases over the past decade. That's enough...

Souder votes for new Head Start legislation

WASHINGTON, D.C.?U.S. Rep. Mark Souder recently voted for House passage of H.R. 1429, the Improving Head Start Act of 2007, which would reauthorize the Head...

Senator Bayh issues poisoned poultry wake-up call

WASHINGTON, D.C.?U.S. Senator Evan Bayh recently issued a statement regarding the recent contamination of chicken feed at 38 poultry farms in Indiana by tainted wheat...

Johnson, Williams lauded for service to township security

Courtesy of the Wayne Township Trustee's Office

FORT WAYNE?The Wayne Township Trustee's Office recently honored two of its employees for their dedicated service to the Township.

Honored...

'Eurocentric' curricula damage black students, says student in banned speech

By Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON (NNPA)?Millions of students who attend America's public schools are being indoctrinated with "Eurocentric" curricula that diminish their history and...