Abby Phillip, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—One of the civil rights movement’s most prominent leaders was absent from the historic re-staging of the 1965 march...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – Cadillac has got something. Its two-seat version of the ATS sedan was slick, fun to...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After ceremonies wrap up Sunday in Alabama commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the signing of...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist One day in late February 1965, an interracial group of 29 university students rode into a small, segregated town...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “A new expression has entered the Westminster lexicon: dog-whistle politics. It means putting out a message that, like...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist While most of the nation has been buried under mountains of snow and slapped in the face by sub-freezing...
By Everett L. Glenn NNPA Guest Columnist Noted sports columnist William Rhoden penned an article a month ago in the New York Times under the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Yes, the dot-com era was filled with fraud. One year, we had 14 high tech startups pay sponsorship...
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters)—Namibia’s outgoing president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has won the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s $5 million African leadership prize, an award meant to recognize good governance...
Roger Cheng, CNET BARCELONA (CNET.com)—Google will launch a wireless service of its own, but it may be a limited project. Sundar Pichai, senior vice president...
Eric Werner, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months into full Republican control of Congress, GOP leaders are struggling to demonstrate they really are in...
David Betancourt, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—“It’s so stupid. It’s like, stop stealing all the white people’s superheroes. Make up your own, you know...
Victoria Dawson Hoff, ELLE MAGAZINE (Elle.com)—Thanks to a couple of probably coincidental sightings of Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio hanging out in the same vicinity, rumors have been...
Rick Hampson, USA TODAY NEW YORK (USA Today)—Our Lady of Vilnius Church, built by families of immigrant Lithuanian longshoremen, started out a century ago as...
Max Kutner, NEWSWEEK (Newsweek)—In 2013, hours before 16-year-old Adrian Alvaresz killed himself during lunchtime in the courtyard of his high school in Texas, he posted a...
Jason Patinkin, ASSOCIATED PRESS JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency said on Saturday that hundreds of children were abducted two weeks ago...
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY (USA Today)—At a time when measles is making a dramatic comeback, a new study finds that more than 70% of children’s...
Zoe Kleinman, BBC (BBC.com)—Furniture giant Ikea has unveiled a range of furniture fitted with wireless charging spots for mobile devices. The Home Smart range will initially...
(The Los Angeles Times)—An officer-involved shooting on Los Angeles’ skid row has captured nationwide attention with cellphone video that shows the incident. Three officers opened...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charmayne “Maxee” Maxwell, a member of the 1990s girl group Brownstone — best known for the hit If You Love Me—...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Among the formal definitions for “acting the fool” are: one who is deficient in judgment, sense or understanding....
Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, it’s a week to invoke America’s civil rights struggles from past to present. The...
Bruce Smith, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A tranquil spot on the Cooper River in Charleston is a place of memory, much like New...
Rick Freeman, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Mason, the rugged power forward who was a defensive force in the NBA from the 1990s...
Richard Goldstein, THE NEW YORK TIMES DETROIT (The New York Times)—Earl Lloyd, who became the first black player to appear in an N.B.A. game when he...