By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act nearly two years ago in...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When a colleague dropped the line, “You can’t hashtag your way to freedom,” I loved it! I laughed out loud,...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Financially-troubled Corinthian Colleges, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges, has a new financial hurdle: a $30 million fine....
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was standing in Jacksonville, Fla. airport awaiting a flight home when I looked up at the television at...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We all know of the recent horror of a North Charleston, S.C. police officer deciding to murder an unarmed...
The jailing of eight Black Atlanta educators is an outrage matched only by the racist tests they were forced to give and the racist conditions in...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist On October 16, we will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. In the subsequent two...
Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY NEW YORK (USA Today) — Coincidence of timing? Only days before a certain high-profile smart timepiece begins shipping, Google is...
Elias Meseret, ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Many in Ethiopia are reeling from the news that several Ethiopians were killed in Libya by...
Andrew Seligman, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — Through three long years of knee surgeries and recoveries, the Chicago Bulls waited for this. And when the...
Janelle Griffith, NJ.com (NJ.com) — Nearly three months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub, Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and...
By Veronica Hilbring Special to the NNPA from The New Pittsburgh Courier (NNPA) — TIME Magazine revealed its 12th annual 100 list of the...
Ben Brumfield, CNN BALTIMORE (CNN) — Freddie Gray was in perfect health until police chased and tackled him in Baltimore over a week ago, his lawyer...
Sam Roberts, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., the first surgeon to successfully implant an automatic heart defibrillator...
By Sally Douglas Arce The 26th Annual Open Studios Shipyard Artists Spring Dream ~ Live With Art showcases 140+ exhibiting artists at Hunters Point...
Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY VENICE BEACH, Calif. (USA Today) — Imagine a world in which CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox shows are all only available...
Ed Cropley, REUTERS PRETORIA, South Africa (Reuters) — South Africa sought diplomatic support from countries across the continent on Friday to defeat the “demon” of...
By Victoria T. Davis Special to the NNPA from The Indianapolis Recorder (NNPA) — During summers in Creston, S.C., Malcolm Franklin sharpened his jockey skills. While...
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR NEW YORK (NPR.com) — An obscure but riveting genre of theater is being revived in New York City. They’re called “anti-lynching...
Steven J. Horowitz, BILLBOARD LONDON (Billboard) — For her thirteenth studio album The London Sessions, Mary J. Blige made a hard left. Bored with the...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — With a tone of outrage and eye-rolling dismissiveness, President Barack Obama and his White House team are working...
Benjamin Mueller, THE NEW YORK TIMES NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (The New York Times) — Civil rights groups in North Charleston, S.C., asked the United States Department...
Deborah Barfield Berry and Ledyard King, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today) – Five years after the massive BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gulf Coast communities...
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY (USA Today) — Police who kill suspects in the line of duty rarely face charges, experts say, but recent incidents...
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