10/27/2021

Breast Cancer Research, Funding Impacted By Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic

By LEONA DUNN The pandemic has not only disrupted normal processes for raising funds for breast cancer research, but in the scientific world it has really […]
10/27/2021

The Roots of Deadly TNBC Breast Cancer

By MELANIE EVERSLEY Researcher heads first-ever study of tumor tissue from Africans and Black Americans, hopes for new prevention methods A petite and affable physician in […]
10/27/2021

Cancer Moonshot Making ‘Remarkable Progress and Scientific Accomplishments’

By SAUNDRA YOUNG In 2016, President Barack Obama directed then Vice President Joe Biden to take the lead in the Administration’s efforts to eradicate cancer. That […]
09/11/2021

‘I Was in Disbelief’: Photojournalist Velvet McNeil Tells Story of 9/11 Experience in Photo Exhibits

Special to NABJ Velvet McNeil took a few days off from her job at The Detroit News in September 2001 to travel to her hometown of […]
09/10/2021

Remembering the Day that Changed the World Through the Eyes of a Former Police Officer

By Melanie Eversley The country knows Eric Adams might become New York’s second Black mayor. The Democrat will square off in November against anti-crime advocate Curtis […]
09/10/2021

Filmmaker Spike Lee Reflects on 9/11 and Other Issues

By Ron Wynn With the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil looming, a lot of folks are offering analysis and […]
09/10/2021

Behind the Scenes in a Newsroom on 9/11: How The Philadelphia Inquirer Newsroom Produced the Extra

By Sandra Dawson Long Weaver I did not lose a loved one or a dear friend on 9/11.  But like many others, I still recall very […]
09/10/2021

Appreciating Life and Family on a Day of Tragedy

By Allison Davis Twenty years ago, I was Vice President of Dunbar Productions in partnership with CBS’s syndicated unit Eyemark. We developed television shows and documentaries […]
09/10/2021

Disturbing Memories Come Back with Visit to Ground Zero

By Melanie Eversley For almost 20 years, this New Yorker managed to avoid Ground Zero. That ended one night when I took the wrong subway exit […]