https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Mon, 03 Mar 2025 03:28:20 +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/news/protesters-mount-march-on-last-day-of-rnc/ Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:57:41 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/protesters-mount-march-on-last-day-of-rnc/ Republican National Convention Briahnna Brown, Howard University News Service. Protesters gathered at Carnegie Avenue to rally the demonstrators and prepare for their march across the Hope Memorial Bridge in downtown Cleveland during the Republican National Convention. CLEVELAND — Lloyd Fraser, 35, is not normally a protester, but the Cleveland resident came out Thursday in 90-degree weather to make a statement against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Using the Republican National Convention (RNC) as a backdrop, he said that people need to do more than vote. “[We’re] just standing against Trump, standing against hate and fear and all that he represents,”]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/fighting-religious-bigotry-with-comedy-at-the-rnc/ Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:25:42 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/fighting-religious-bigotry-with-comedy-at-the-rnc/ Republican National Convention Courtesy photo. Comedian Dean Obeidallah, right, was one of three comedians headlining the "BANNED" comedy show in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention. CLEVELAND – Republican Donald Trump and his supporters have said things about Muslims that even his own party members have condemned.  They should be banned from the country, they said.  They can never be president, they said.  There should be a national directory for them, they added. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, a leading Arab American organization decided it was a time to fight back, and it did — with a comedy show.]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/heavy-police-presence-apparently-paying-off/ Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:01:05 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/heavy-police-presence-apparently-paying-off/ Republican National Convention 2016 Milbert Brown, Howward University News Service: Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the nation fill downtown Cleveland to monitor protestors during the Republican Nationl Convention.  So far, the increased force has worked. CLEVELAND – Nearly everywhere you look in downtown Cleveland during the Republican National Convention, there are cops – tall cops, short cops, fat cops, buff cops, young cops and old cops.  There are beat cops, cops on horses, cops in riot gear, cops in neon vests directing traffic and bicycle cops with body cams atop their helmets. There are cops from Illinois and]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/howard-students-to-provide-diverse-coverage-of-republication-national-convention/ Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:15:17 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/howard-students-to-provide-diverse-coverage-of-republication-national-convention/ HU News Service Covers First Convention Howard University students, from left, McKenzie Marshall, Sidnee King, Briahnna Brown and Tatyana Hopkins will provide unprecedented university coverage of the Republican National Convention in July.  Courtesy photo WASHINGTON – McKenzie Marshall, a broadcast journalism student at Howard University, wasn’t able to vote in the 2012 presidential election.  Eleven months shy of her 18th birthday, Marshall wasn’t old enough.  This year, however, she will not only be a voter but also a member of a team of Howard University students that will be providing unprecedented university coverage of the Republican National Convention.  The students]]>