https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Mon, 03 Mar 2025 04:26:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/politics/president-biden-establishes-national-monument-for-1908-springfield-race-riot/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:20:32 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=17391 By Asia Alexander Howard University News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. — To commemorate a dark chapter in American history, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation today in the Oval Office marking the 116th anniversary of the Springfield Race Riot and approving a new national monument. The Springfield Race Riot was a brutal assault by a white mob on the Black community of Springfield, Illinois, resulting in the town being burned down and lives lost in 1908. The monument commemorates this violence and highlights the pervasive racism, intimidation and brutality faced by Black Americans nationwide. Before signing the proclamation President Biden made]]> https://hunewsservice.com/multimedia/video/why-arent-young-people-at-the-polls/ Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:02:29 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/why-arent-young-people-at-the-polls/ NAACP Launches Voter Education & Registration Drive Photo by Dawn Davis. Nia Savoy, a Howard University student, votes for the first time at Washington Metropolitan High School in 2016.  The NAACP has officially launched its 2018 voter education and registration drive. The country’s oldest Civil Rights organization launched the drive just weeks after the 50th anniversary commemoration of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., noting that voting by blacks is at an all-time low. NewsVision reporter Tayler Adigun talked to millennial voters to get their perspectives.    ]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/many-anxious-as-new-justice-considers-pivotal-cases/ Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:03:28 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/many-anxious-as-new-justice-considers-pivotal-cases/ Photo Courtesy of Getty Images: Many are concerned the newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will turn back the clock on equality efforts for African Americans and other margianalized communities.  WASHINGTON — African-Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, the LGBT community and women are watching anxiously as the U.S. Supreme Court considers important cases with the addition of new, conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch. Many are worried his judicial ideology, which is closely aligned with the arch conservative judge he is replacing Antonin Scalia, will erode existing civil rights protections for people of color, women and the LGBT community and will thwart efforts to]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/many-still-nervous-after-failed-repeal-of-obamacare/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:41:35 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/many-still-nervous-after-failed-repeal-of-obamacare/ Health Care African-American families, one of the big beneficiaries of Obamacare, were pleased that the Republican bill to kill the health care plan failed, but they are now nervous that Republicans and Donald Trump are planning to renew their efforts. WASHINGTON – With President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers signaling that they may make another attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, supporters of the landmark healthcare legislation have had little time to enjoy the earlier failure of the GOP bill. “We dodged a major bullet, but there’s quite a lot to be worried about,” said Marjorie]]>