By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist President Obama marked the 50th anniversary of Selma by celebrating the ordinary heroes who sacrificed so much to...
Wesley Lowery and David A. Fahrenthold, THE WASHINGTON POST CLAYTON, Mo. (The Washington Post)—Authorities charged a 20-year-old man from the St. Louis area with shooting two...
Amanda Bennett, HUFFINGTON POST TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Huffington Post)—On March 10, Elliot Spillers was elected the first African American SGA president at the University of Alabama...
A subcommittee of the Oakland Workforce Investment Board (WIB) Youth Council, called the West Oakland Working Group, met on Feb. 4, and the meeting was ruled...
The Bay Area event production collective HGMNY is hosting a “Concert for Justice” to benefit the family of Eric Garner, Thursday, April 9, at the New...
A financial education, entrepreneurship and college preparatory conference for students and Money Management Workshops for parents was held Saturday, March 7 at UC Berkeley, hosted by...
Alameda County and other California counties have begun receiving millions of dollars a year to partially offset the state decision to save money by shifting many...
Gladys Green has made her mark on the community of Oakland many times over – as a neighborhood activist, a business leader, a champion of low-income...
Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith, Center for Public Integrity via THE WASHINGTON POST PELINDABA, South Africa (The Washington Post)—Enough nuclear explosive to fuel half...
Clarence Roy-Macaulay and Robbie Corey-Boulet, ASSOCIATED PRESS FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s vice president sought asylum from the United States on Saturday, saying...
Sylvie Corbet, ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS (AP) — France has reoriented its military efforts in West Africa to focus more on the fight against Boko Haram,...
Sylvie Corbet, ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS (AP) — France has reoriented its military efforts in West Africa to focus more on the fight against Boko Haram,...
Alexei Oreskovic, REUTERS (Reuters)—Apple Inc’s new smartwatch may be a tough sell, with 69 percent of Americans indicating they are not interested in buying the...
Josh Constine, TECH CRUNCH (TechCrunch.com)—Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads. TheFind had raised $26 million from...
Borys Kit, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER (Hollywood Reporter)—Eddie Murphy is in talks to join the Richard Pryor biopic that Lee Daniels is directing for The Weinstein Co.,...
Borys Kit, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER (Hollywood Reporter)—Eddie Murphy is in talks to join the Richard Pryor biopic that Lee Daniels is directing for The Weinstein Co.,...
Hugh McIntyre, FORBES (Forbes.com)—Some people just can’t get enough of the spotlight, can they? In addition to her many upcoming and ongoing projects, global pop...
Marisa Taylor, AL JAZEERA AMERICA (Al Jazeera America)—Health experts in Australia said they have completed an exhaustive review of available research on homeopathic medicine, resulting...
Marisa Taylor, AL JAZEERA AMERICA (Al Jazeera America)—Health experts in Australia said they have completed an exhaustive review of available research on homeopathic medicine, resulting...
Steve DelVecchio, LARRYBROWNSPORTS.COM SAN FRANCISCO (LarryBrownSports.com)—Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch and a group of his friends were reportedly involved in a fight outside a...
Steve DelVecchio, LARRYBROWNSPORTS.COM SAN FRANCISCO (LarryBrownSports.com)—Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch and a group of his friends were reportedly involved in a fight outside a...
Stephen Ohlemacher, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are getting older, but not this old: Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Several million people hit with new federal fines for going without health insurance will get a second chance...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Several million people hit with new federal fines for going without health insurance will get a second chance...
Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY FERGUSON, Mo. (USA Today)— The top elected official here says he had limited authority to tackle enormous problems and quell racial...
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