From the daily archives: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
ACCRA, July 24 (Reuters) – Ghana’s President John Atta Mills has died unexpectedly, a presidential statement said, and an aide said his death occurred on Tuesday after he took ill on Monday night. The death of the president of the world’s No. 2 cocoa grower comes months before Mills was due to stand [...]
by George Barnette Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Publishing veteran Bill Tompkins will get a crack at moving Black newspapers forward as he’s been named president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the umbrella organization for America’s Black newspapers. Tompkins has 19 years of experience with [...]
Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson& of “The Jeffersons” one of television’s most memorable characters and a symbol for urban upward mobility, has died. He was 74. Police in El Paso, Texas, said late Tuesday that Hemsley was found dead at his home on the eastside of the [...]
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Threats on the life of President Barack Obama are not uncommon from members of hate groups, but to have First lady Michelle Obama as a possible target from a police officer is stunning news. Law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C., are [...]
By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If Black voter turnout reverts to the level it was before Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in 2008, the nation’s first Black president will have a difficult time winning a second term in the White House, concludes a National Urban [...]
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