By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEWS ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Three extremely qualified African American women are at the forefront of making certain that...
(The Washington Post) – The City of Cleveland has asked the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed while he played with a toy...
(CBS News) – Sixty-one percent of Americans now say race relations in the United States are bad, the highest percentage since 1992, according to a...
“Jack London” George Rowan, Jr. recently gave a piano and vocal performance at the April 14 meeting of the California High Speed Rail Authority in support...
Family and friends joined together on Sunday, April 26 to celebrate the 95th birthday of Josie Dean, a longtime Oakland resident and former schoolteacher. During...
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley The National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious scientific organization, has elected five UC Berkeley faculty members to...
San Francisco, CA – The start to the season was difficult due to many factors. Injuries, no offense and poor pitching. Looking back, its being them,...
After all of his accomplishments this season, Wardell Stephen Curry was awarded the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award this week. The 6’3’’ point guard had set...
Dr. Yosef A. A. Ben-Jochannan passed away at the age of 96. He was the world’s foremost Egyptologist. He authored 49 books that challenged popular and...
Bayer HealthCare is investing $100 million to build a product testing facility at its Berkeley manufacturing site that will support research and emerging generations of treatments...
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...
