By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the context of the responses to the lynchings of African Americans by police and racist citizenry, greater and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In his speech the night before his murder Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. repeated the Biblical parable of the...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist A couple of weeks ago, law enforcement officials in Mauritania arrested nine people for doing something the government considers radical:...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency is the “Air Police” for the federal government. It enforces regulations and rules that are...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist This week was interesting because all of my favorites seem to have something in common. It was about the struggle...
Karl Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM (AP) — When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to “decarbonize” the global economy they’re talking...
Scott Webster, CNET (CNET.com) — For the third year in a row, AT&T has nabbed exclusive rights to a rough-and-tumble version of the Samsung...
Scott Webster, CNET (CNET.com) — For the third year in a row, AT&T has nabbed exclusive rights to a rough-and-tumble version of the Samsung...
Mike Snider, USA TODAY (USA Today) — Showtime’s new standalone Net video offering will be hitting Roku set-top boxes and Sony’s PlayStation Vue service...
Jonathan Allen, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — It has become a recurrent moment in Hillary Clinton’s speeches as she campaigns for the presidency: softening...
Jessica Guyunn, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — Apple, famous for parading white male executives across the stage at its annual Worldwide Developers...
Anne Flaherty, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will erase much of the debt of students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges,...
Martin Griffith, ASSOCIATED PRESS RENO, Nev. (AP) — A runaway slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War and lost a leg...
Leonard Pitts, Jr., THE BALTIMORE SUN (The Baltimore Sun) — Recently, I watched the first episode of “The Briefcase,” CBS’ new “reality” show. I...
Christine Thomasos, THE CHRISTIAN POST (The Christian Post) — When gospel singer and pastor Marvin Sapp’s late wife, MaLinda, knew she was going to...
Sam Amick, USA TODAY OAKLAND (USA Today) — There was a time not too long ago when LeBron James enjoyed the experience of watching...
Sam Amick, USA TODAY OAKLAND (USA Today) — There was a time not too long ago when LeBron James enjoyed the experience of watching...
Scott Shane, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — The families of an anti-Qaeda cleric and a police officer killed in an American...
Scott Shane, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — The families of an anti-Qaeda cleric and a police officer killed in an American...
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times) — Alan “Al” Eickhoff, interim police chief in Ferguson, Mo., took over the embattled department...
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times) — Alan “Al” Eickhoff, interim police chief in Ferguson, Mo., took over the embattled department...
By Lee Hildebrand “I’ve always been pretty determined,” San Francisco-born singer and songwriter Perri Arnette McKissick, known professionally as “Pebbles,” told England’s Blues & Soul magazine...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Serena Jameka Williams is more than one of the greatest tennis players in the world. She comes from...