NNPA NEWSWIRE — For Martin, the position carries a responsibility to the community. “It’s about a life of service, it’s about being helpful to the community that I live in, that I love, and that has embraced me now for 14 years,” she says. She adds that her role as attorney magistrate gave her ample opportunity to learn the systems of the building and the district, to get to know the people she worked with, and to handle cases that came before the court, preparing her for her present position.
Attorney Lisa Martin is 1st African American Judge in 34th District Court
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African American Stars Discuss “The Culture & Journey of the Black Baseball Player”
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It’s super special, man, especially with the tone of the country and the tone of the world right now…this has been going on for a while, so we’re always fighting to make our mark…give something for the community to look up to,” said Kyle Lewis of the Seattle Mariners, a stud outfielder who beat out White Sox outfielder Luis Robert and Astros right-hander Cristian Javier for the award in the American League.
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COMMENTARY: Did Publix Make Dispensing the Covid-19 Vaccine Political?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Why did Publix neglect the counties with the most COVID-19 cases and deaths in the entire state? What executive made the decision on which stores would dispense the vaccine? What data did they use? Who thinks it is logical to omit sending vaccines to a county with more than 350,000 cases and 4,000 deaths for one with less than 5,000 cases and 40 deaths?
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In a First, President Joe Biden Talks Racial Equity and Challenging White Supremacy
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Much of the focus on Biden’s equality effort has pointed out the need to comprehensively include equality language in all White House policy. Biden’s cabinet and administration are working to be the most diverse in history.
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How a North Carolina Farmer Become an Important Part of Maryland’s Black History
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Verda Freeman Welcome, a proud member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, taught for nearly a dozen years in the Baltimore public school system before setting her sights on the political arena where she ultimately made history.
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COMMENTARY: Back to Normal? What’s Normal?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — I don’t think that more than 400,000 people dead is normal. The inability to formally mourn our departed loved ones isn’t normal. Crazy white people storming the Capitol surely isn’t normal. And conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Green is so far away from normal that she is on the insanity spectrum.
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OP-ED: NFL’s 2021 Opportunity to Diversify Team Ownership
NNPA NEWSWIRE — I speak not only as a fan of professional football but also as someone who has a direct interest in helping the NFL fulfill its laudable and historic commitment to building a diverse and equitable league for players, coaches, owners and the thousands of others who make professional football one of the most popular sports in the world.
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PRESS ROOM: Biden, Harris have experiences needed to heal country’s wounds, Bishop Barber says in inaugural prayer service
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Nationally, more than 140 million poor and low-income people live in the United States, or 43% of the country’s population, and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, with organizing committees in 45 states, is building a moral fusion movement to address the five interlocking injustices of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism and a distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. Our demands are reflected in our Jubilee Platform. We also have listed 14 policy priorities for the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration and the new Congress.
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IN MEMORIAM: Cicely Tyson, a Legend Who Portrayed African Americans with Dignity and Strength, Dies at 96
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “In her extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson was one of the rare award-winning actors whose work on the screen was surpassed only by what she was able to accomplish off of it. She had a heart unlike any other—and for 96 years, she left a mark on the world that few will ever match,” wrote President Barack Obama after hearing the news of Tyson’s death.
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NNPA President and CEO Dr. Ben Chavis Named Among 100 Most Influential Blacks Today
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The CORE 100 honorees, which include changemakers like Stacey Abrams, Attorney Ben Crump, NBA superstar LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, mark and remind the world of the beauty, boldness, and brilliance of Black Excellence at a time when the cultural, economic, and political landscape in the United States has grown increasingly more hostile towards Blackness.
