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Black women appeal to Black men: ‘Show up for us and with us at the ballot box’

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia After hip-hop Icon Ice Cube revealed that he’s working with President Donald Trump on a Contract...

Wolf relents after 9-month budget impasse

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's Democratic governor backed off his veto threat Wednesday on the GOP's $6.6 billion no-new-taxes spending package, ending nearly nine...

Tampon tax: Does being female in the US carry unfair costs?

NEW YORK (AP) — Margo Seibert and Natalie Brasington don't think women should have to pay a "period tax," and like a growing number...

States reduce jobless checks, adding pressure to unemployed

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — When Demetrius White recently lost his job as a $10-an-hour forklift driver loading pallets of shampoo, he applied for...

Pennsylvania's embattled attorney general won't run again

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's embattled attorney general said Tuesday she will not seek a second term, facing pressure from within her own party...

Some Detroit schools closed again due to teacher absences

 DETROIT (AP) — Some Detroit schools were closed again Wednesday due to the absence of teachers, but it was the smallest number since a...

Maine governor sorry for remark about 'young White' girls

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage apologized Friday for his remark about out-of-state drug dealers impregnating "young White" girls, calling it a...

Grocery chains leave food deserts barren, AP analysis finds

EATONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — As part of Michelle Obama's healthy eating initiative, a group of major food retailers promised in 2011 to open or...

Kentucky's new lieutenant governor, 1st Black statewide officeholder touts outsider status

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) _ Growing up in Detroit, in the years when she had a television, Jenean Hampton would use pancakes to bribe her...

Ferguson protests influence actions at U. of Missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the Black culture center at the University of Missouri's flagship campus in 2010 in...

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