Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES (USA Today)—Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday in Arizona after pleading guilty...
Renee Lewis, AL JAZEERA AMERICA (Al Jazeera America)—The most widely used herbicide in the world, glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto product Roundup, was...
John Paczkowski, BUZZFEED SAN FRANCISCO (BuzzFeed)—For years Apple has described TV as an “area of intense interest,” trashing the current TV experience as antiquated and asinine,...
Joan E. Solsman, CNET (CNET.com)—Google is rolling out a new automatic “smart lock” function that uses your mobile device’s accelerometer to determine when you set...
Sam Sanders, NPR (NPR.com)—Clippy will soon get a roommate in Microsoft heaven or hell, depending on your perspective. This week, Microsoft announced that it will...
John Rogers, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of bottles of low-priced California wines sold under such labels as Franzia, Mogen David and Almaden...
Joseph Zucker, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com)—Steve Nash has called it quits after an illustrious 18-year career in the NBA in which he made stops with the Phoenix...
By Sonya Eskridge Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender (NNPA)—This really isn’t Raven-Symoné’s week: first she rumbled with the Beyhive, and now she’s...
Andrew Pulver, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian)—Chris Rock is working on a follow-up to Top Five, the comedian’s acclaimed feature-film comedy that achieved excellent reviews and...
Carolyn Kellogg, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times)—New Press will publish the U.S. Department of Justice’s “Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department” and bring...
Corey Williams, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — For 24 years, a stone marker has stood along U.S. 80 in Alabama’s Lowndes County, near the spot...
Melissa Gray, CNN ATLANTA (CNN)—The daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston, in a medically induced coma after being found unresponsive in January, has been moved to...
Brennen Williams, HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post)—As America continues to question and wrestle with the myth of a “post-racial” society, it appears Common may have...
Chuck Culpepper, THE WASHINGTON POST LOUISVILLE, Ky. (The Washington Post)— After midnight in a cramped and lighthearted locker room, Hampton University guard Breon Key looked...
Mike DeBonis, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The Senate had two things to do this week — pass a bill cracking down on sex...
Julie Walker, THE ROOT AUSTIN, Tx. (The Root)—The founders of #BlackLivesMatter are grateful that their message has been picked up by so many people as...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 16 million Americans have gained coverage since President Barack Obama’s health care law...
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—An American being treated for Ebola was in critical condition Monday, the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Maryland said. The healthcare worker was...
Stacey Tisdale, BLACK ENTERPRISE (BlackEnterprise.com)—One of the four directives of the Student Aid Bill of Rights President Obama announced this week says every student in...
Genetta M. Adams, THE ROOT AUSTIN, Tx. (TheRoot.com)—While the tech industry continued to try to figure out what to do about its diversity problem, 50 high...
Candice Choi, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s workers in 19 cities filed complaints over burns from grease, a lack of protective equipment and...
Vindu Goel, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—With 1.39 billion active users worldwide, Facebook’s social network is the closest thing we have to a...
Cory Townes, EBONY (Ebony.com)—This story starts with a conversation in Brooklyn roughly last week. “Yo, you know what this means?” “No, what?” “This time next week,...
Ryan Book, THE MUSIC TIMES (MusicTimes.com)—Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were certainly responsibly for the biggest copyright infraction decision of the last week, which allowed...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Julie Wolf, THE ROOT (TheRoot.com)—Who was America’s first successful stage magician? He swallowed swords and molten lead. He danced...
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