By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia 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 access to the White House. Called the ultimate White House credential, the hard pass allows on-demand access to the famed Pennsylvania Avenue complex. “The National Newspaper Publishers Association’s Senior National Correspondent, Stacy Brown, has once

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