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Called the ultimate White House credential, the hard pass allows on-demand access to the famed Pennsylvania Avenue complex.

by Stacy M. Brown

Seventy-two years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt invited Harry S. McAlpin, Jr. of the National Negro Publishers Association to cover an Oval Office news conference, and 82-years after the founding of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the Black Press can freely cover the White House.  The NNPA has received a hard pass, allowing near-unfettered […]