NABJ previously called on CBS to release employees from nondisclosure agreements so that they could share a full account of their experiences.

White House correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Networks, April Ryan will be honored as the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) 2017 Journalist of the Year. The NABJ “recognizes a black journalist who has a distinguished body of work that has extraordinary depth, scope and significance to people of the African Diaspora.” […]

According to the Office of Minority Health, when it comes to receiving the vaccination for pneumonia, Hispanic adults aged 65 and older were 45.2 percent less likely to have ever received the pneumonia shot, while Blacks were at 49.8 percent.

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Michael J. Feeny, the 32-year-old award-winning journalist who previously served as the president of the New York Association of Black Journalists, died Sunday of complications from a staph infection.