Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Pointing to increased high school graduation rates, President Barack Obama said Monday he’s prepared to fight with...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Lowering the ozone standard, particularly to the levels suggested by EPA, will almost certainly cause economic harm to the...
Jessica Guyunn, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today)—The growing effort to get more African Americans and Hispanics to join tech companies or start their own...
Jared Dubin, CBS SPORTS (CBSSports.com)—Former Florida State Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston is widely expected to be one of the first picks off the board in...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I never cease to be surprised by the racist audacity of the Republicans in Congress. In clear violation of...
Jamey Keaton and Philippe Sotto, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France (AP) — Some things have changed since riots swept across France’s troubled neighborhoods a decade ago....
Gail Mitchell, BILLBOARD LOS ANGELES (Billboard.com)—Deitrick Haddon, award-winning gospel artist and a star on Oxygen network’s popular reality series Preachers of L.A. and Fix My...
Josh Lederman, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday for holding up confirmation of President Barack...
Richard Valmanis, REUTERS ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Reuters)—The man accused of wounding two policemen during a protest rally outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police headquarters last week...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist HOUSTON (NNPA)—After more than a week, it felt like we drove the Lexus GS 350 F Sport sedan through...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist Gossip in the Air This week in Atlanta it was all about friendships, complicated love and lots of gossip…RHOA’s Kandi...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist Every morning, when I fix my teenage daughter breakfast and drop her off to school, she reminds me that #BlackGirlsMatter....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago I traveled from Mississippi to Selma, Ala. on March 21, 1965 to join Dr. Martin...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist For the seventh year in a row, I drove out to the North Carolina Western Regional Basketball Championships to watch...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist One of the many questions provoked by the “open letter” 47 Republican Senators published last week to try to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
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...
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...