Tali Arbel, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix, a vocal opponent of Comcast’s failed bid for Time Warner Cable, supports Charter’s quest to do...
Sunday marked the beginning of a weeklong faith-based campaign to spread a message of resistance against bigotry and acts of systemic violence. Hundreds of churches, mosques...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic “When our child is killed we feel guilt. We feel like failures,” says the leader of a women’s group...
The City of Oakland has quietly issued a new notice offering to sell or lease a city-owned parcel on East 12th Street near Lake Merritt...
(The Washington Post) – There’s this thing people sometimes say down South. So-and-so is “acting brand new.” Sometimes that’s a reference to people behaving like they...
By Bobbi Booker Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – Immediately following President Barack Obama’s speech in Philadelphia this week, NAACP President Cornell W....
(Reuters) – A South Carolina judge on Thursday extended for another week a temporary order sealing court documents and silencing lawyers and others involved in...
(Reuters) – A South Carolina judge on Thursday extended for another week a temporary order sealing court documents and silencing lawyers and others involved in...
By Samaria Bailey Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch pushed the NAACP to keep fighting for equality in...
By Samaria Bailey Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch pushed the NAACP to keep fighting for equality in...
(Washington Post) – Sharanda Jones — prisoner 33177-077 — struggled to describe the moment in 1999 when a federal judge sentenced her to life in prison...
(New York Times) – Two men were sitting in a parked car, waiting to pick someone up. Carlos Cervantes was in the driver’s seat. He was...
Ryan J. Reilly, The Huffington Post The criminal justice system is “particularly skewed by race and by wealth,” President Barack Obama said on Tuesday in...
By Troy Williams If you go to the website, gamechangersproject.org, one of the first things you see is a picture of a little boy...
(CBS News) – The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art says it will post a sign telling visitors that an exhibition featuring Bill Cosby’s art collection...
NEW YORK (Fox News) – Kylie Jenner is being accused on Instagram of cultural appropriation for wearing cornrows in her hair. “Hunger Games” actress Amandla Stenberg...
By Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently released a new rule to assist...
KATHLEEN FOODY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The president of the Atlanta NAACP says the civil rights group wants Confederate symbols — including a giant carving...
SEANNA ADCOX, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — GOP Gov. Nikki Haley’s successful push to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s Statehouse grounds following last...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Residents in a predominantly black South Carolina neighborhood say fliers have been distributed claiming to be from the Ku Klux Klan....
BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police car camera footage ordered released by a federal judge show a California man disobeying orders to keep...
I recently met a seven-year-old Steph Curry of the future. Then again, maybe I actually met a Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, or Matisse of the future.
Betsy Schulz, who has taught generations of high school students at Oakland Emiliano Zapata Street Academy, has retired after 42 years Schulz...
By Beth Tagawa, SF State News The groundbreaking took place Thursday for the Mashouf Wellness Center, the first major facility to be built on...
SCHUYLER DIXON, AP Sports Writer IRVING, Texas (AP) — A person close to the negotiations says Dez Bryant has agreed to a five-year, $70 million contract...