Leonard Pitts, Jr., THE BALTIMORE SUN (The Baltimore Sun) — Recently, I watched the first episode of “The Briefcase,” CBS’ new “reality” show. I...
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...
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...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I only recently embraced my status as an “elder.” Actually, I describe myself as an “episodic elder,” eager enough to...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Offhandedly, I can’t tell you the titles of most of the dances I saw Dudley Williams, the incomparable...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Deciding to Move On Dear Alma, I have been with this person for six years, and we’ve had our up...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AllAfrica.com) — Delegates from African countries are gathering at the International Relations and Cooperation Department offices in Pretoria as the African Union...
By Cornell William Brooks, President/CEO, NAACP How many more lives of unarmed Black men and women, tragically and senselessly killed by police, will our nation...
Your browser does not support iframes. via TV One Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Daily World TV One’s award-winning series Unsung returns with an all-new...
Kevin Rector, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — More than a dozen civil and religious groups calling for police reform in Baltimore will...
Jessica Roy, NEW YORK MAGAZINE NEW YORK (New York Magazine) — Kalief Browder, the 22-year-old Bronx resident who was incarcerated as a teenager for years at Rikers...
Nick Anderson, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — Moody’s Investors Service cut Howard University’s credit rating Friday for the third time in three...
Tasha Tsiaperas and Claire Z. Cardona, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS McKINNEY (The Dallas Morning News) — A call to police about unwelcome teenagers at a...
By McKenzie Jackson/ California Black Media Los Angeles County resident Diyon Clark is relieved to learn that his Medi-Cal renewal will be automatic this year....
Oakland, CA – This might be some of the best basketball we’ve seen in a long time. Two overtime thrillers in the first two games is...
By Thomas Levy, UC Berkeley Newes Gender stereotyping in which men are more strongly associated with science than women has been found in some unlikely...
By James Moore Jr. As a second-generation Oakland native, I have fond memories from my youth of the Oakland Auditorium, now called the Henry J....
Joel Rubin and Kate Mather, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES (The L.A. Times) — Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and the Police Department’s independent watchdog have...
Anne Geggis, THE SUN-SENTINEL DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (The Sun-Sentinel) — The discovery of bones Friday on a site slated for 69 townhouses — and thought...
By Starr Rhett Rocque Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Chronicle Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez star in a revenge thriller entitled, Lila and...
By KaiElz Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender Imagine that the story about Bruce Jenner’s sex change or gender transformation as Caitlyn Jenner: got...
J. Weston Phippen, THE NATIONAL JOURNAL (The National Journal) — As the country added 280,000 jobs in May, unemployment remained unchanged this month, though it...
