Paul Hampel, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (STLToday.com)—Federal class-action lawsuits filed Sunday against the cities of Jennings and Ferguson allege that jails there operate as...
Felicia Fonseca, ASSOCIATED PRESS FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The rolling hills of northeastern Arizona where cornfields lined a watering hole and sheep grazed in the...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist For most of the last decade, James Robertson, a 56-year-old Detroiter, walked to work every day. Of course, anyone...
NEW YORK (AP) — About $355 million distributed last week to investors cheated in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme means over half of allowable claims have...
Chris Kay, Bloomberg News via CHICAGO TRIBUNE ABUJA, Nigeria (Chicago Tribune) — Nigeria’s military has six weeks to do what it failed to accomplish in...
Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY (USA Today)—In a short time, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has established himself as the players’ commissioner, the owners’ commissioner, the people’s...
Erica Werner and Alicia A. Caldwell, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending for the Department of Homeland Security hangs in the balance as Congress fights...
Emily Wagster Pettus, ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Anne Moody, whose memoir “Coming of Age in Mississippi” gave a wrenching account of growing up...
Larry Altman, DAILY BREEZE MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (Daily Breeze)—A black Manhattan Beach couple said Thursday they believe their race might be the reason someone set...
Nicole Winfield, ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY (AP) — Members of Pope Francis’ sex abuse commission have criticized his remarks that it is OK for parents...
Mike DeBonis, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The District’s predominantly African American leaders have long taken pains to address the concerns of underrepresented minority...
Mike Snider and Roger Yu, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Thursday forwarded his recommendations for new net neutrality rules to...
Christopher S. Rugaber, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market remains a frustrating place for America’s 9 million unemployed — perhaps more so as...
Jon Wertheim, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (SI.com)—The self-proclaimed Queen City of the Ozarks, Springfield, Mo., sits deep in the beefy midsection of America. It’s no coincidence that...
Lynn Elber, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — The civil rights drama “Selma” won top honors at the NAACP Image Awards in a ceremony that...
Mike Lillis, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill)—Leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are lining up to skip a coming speech by the prime...
Frances Stead Sellers, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—It’s no secret that the stamp of historic segregation is still seared into black and white Americans’...
Chanel Parks, THE HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post)—Fashion has always had a place in the hip-hop world — from Kanye West waxing poetic on the...
Christopher Mathias, HUFFINGTON POST NEW YORK (Huffington Post)—Constance Malcolm still lives in the Bronx apartment where her 18-year-old son, Ramarley Graham, was shot and killed...
Abby Phillip, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—In the face of a growing measles outbreak, President Obama is urging parents to heed modern science and vaccinate...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Activist/ SiriusXm satellite radio host Joe Madison was helping on a campaign to get the Four Tops a star...
By Diane Nash NNPA Guest Columnist Joseph Califano’s statement that Selma was Lyndon B. Johnson’s idea is patently false. Although the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Nigeria, Africa’s so-called giant and the world’s biggest Black nation, is in the news again. And as usual, much of...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As the annual, month-long Black History observance begins, now is a timely moment to reflect on the journey that previous...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Diversity is basically a description of independence. Diversity is what moves the ball for me, and I thought ‘give...
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