by Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper As the nation kicks off Alcohol Awareness Month, new research has come to light. It...
(Bloomberg) – When it comes to taxes, corporate America is getting a bit less corporate. And a bit less American. Fueled by a wave of...
(USA Today) – People worldwide are marking one year since Boko Haram militants abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria, sparking global outrage. The girls were kidnapped from...
(Salon) – The horrific story of the unarmed Walter Scott’s death at the hands of Officer Michael Slager continues to reverberate. Aside from the incontrovertible evidence on...
The Berkeley Board of Library Trustees will make a decision on renaming the South Branch Library after Tarea Hall Pittman at this month’s meeting, determining the...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — All but one of 10 former Atlanta public school educators were sentenced to jail time Tuesday in a widespread...
by Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The effects of living in a patriarchal, racist society measurably erode Black women’s physical and mental wellbeing,...
[People of color] are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Less than a year after her death, Maya Angelou has been further immortalized on a U.S. Postal...
We all go through different situations. Some predicaments can cause stress; some can become a stepping-stone towards success. But, we all must express ourselves. Life...
“The longer I held it to myself, the angrier I got. But, God had another plan. I understood that the killing of my brothers stops with...
Friends and family of 43 missing university students, “normalistas,” spoke at UC Berkeley last Friday, part of a tour throughout the United States to spread word...
Fiat introduced the all new 2015 500X in LA today. AutoNetwork was allowed to live broadcast part of the presentation
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Feidin Santana, the young Dominican immigrant who videotaped North Charleston, S.C. police officer Michael Slager firing his gun...
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By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I first started interacting with Black business advocates of Missouri in the late 1980s when my wife, Kay, and...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states…Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere....
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist It is ironic that April is Fair Housing Month and the U.S. Senate has yet to schedule a vote on...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In 1991, I watched Somalia disintegrate. It was not just the breakup of a state, as we were to...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Despite ill-intended efforts to do it for us, Black Americans have a responsibility to define our own reality. It...
FT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – The Broward State Attorney’s Office has dropped more than three dozen criminal cases connected to four former Fort Lauderdale Police...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist In the RHONY land, the “b” is back and I mean bada** chick, holding it down only the way...
Confronting an Alcoholic Friend Dear Alma, I have a dear friend who is the sweetest, kindest person you could ever hope to know....
Karen DeYoung and Nick Miroff, THE WASHINGTON POST PANAMA CITY (The Washington Post) — President Obama and President Raúl Castro symbolically ended more than a...
Richmond Writes! Poetry Contest winners have been selected! The contest, conceived of by the Richmond Arts & Culture Commission (RACC) as a way to celebrate National...
