By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The movie we are watching in Baltimore is a re-run and a sequel. The price of admission has always been...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a...
By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist A small section of Baltimore, no more than four to six blocks on the city’s west side, experienced looting...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The odds were stacked against Britiny Lee before she was born. Her mother was addicted to drugs, like Britiny’s...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As the wealthy few continue to prosper, the rest of the nation is caught in a financial tug-of-war between stagnant...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist One of the few shining stars of our nation’s economy, the $812-billion chemistry business, is working with Congress to...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist Before I discuss Part I of the big RHOA reunion , I need to talk about how they looked: •...
The San Leandro Recreation and Human Services Department announced will hold its annual Spring Music Recital featuring the department’s Private Music Instruction class on Friday, May...
O’Ryan Johnson and Matt Stout, THE BOSTON HERALD BOSTON (The Boston Herald) — The Boston Police Department has upheld complaints against black officers and punished...
Nate Jones, VULTURE (VULTURE.com) — Vanity Fair sent its finest protocol droid, AN-E L3-B0-V1TZ, to the U.K. set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and...
Dominic Patten, DEADLINE (Deadline.com) — Well, David Ayer didn’t wait long to give the world another look at the upcoming Suicide Squad today. After posting...
Iyana Robertson, VIBE MAGAZINE (VIBE.com) — If this is how she says sorry, Lauryn Hill should make public apology videos more often. After not being able...
Henry Hanks, CNN (CNN) — The fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao promised to be the fight of the century. But one of the events before...
Laura Ungar and Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY (USA Today) — Three-quarters of emergency physicians say they’ve seen ER patient visits surge since Obamacare took effect...
Maryam Shah, THE TORONTO SUN TORONTO (The Toronto Sun) — Hundreds assembled in Toronto Saturday to show solidarity with protesters in Baltimore. Around 400 people gathered in...
Jointly organized by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA brings...
Paul Walsh, THE STAR TRIBUNE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (The StarTribune) — Nekima Levy-Pounds, a college law professor who has been the voice and the face of the...
At Columbia University today, Hillary Clinton called for the end of the “era of mass incarceration.” During remarks at the 18th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “It is one measure of the depth and insidiousness of American racism that the nation ignores the rage of...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Dangerous Sister Act Dear Alma, My sister and I are very close. We’re only three years apart. Although not...
Aaron Heller, ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s ceremonial president said Monday that an outbreak of violent protests by Ethiopian Jews has “exposed an open,...
Nate Scott, USA TODAY (USA Today) — In case you missed it, Saturday night’s fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was dumb and bad. What...
Ashish Magotra, FIRST POST SPORTS (FirstPost.com) — A fight five years in the making, two legendary boxers, the stars (from Michael Jordan to Clint Eastwood...
Ben Terris, THE WASHINGTON POST DETROIT (The Washington Post) — Ben Carson had just started a stump speech to his staff, the one about freedom,...
Mariah Stewart, THE HUFFINGTON POST ST. LOUIS (The Huffington Post) — Kevin Moore, the man who filmed Freddie Gray’s violent arrest, was detained in Baltimore...