Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer D.C.’s Rev. Leah Daughtry has been tapped as chief executive officer of the 2016 Democratic National Convention Committee....
by Terry Shropshire Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World Many urbanites probably wonder why instances of police brutality and lethal force keep being...
By Publisher, Post News Group The recent allegations involving Michigan Police officers who are being accused of planting evidence on a retired Black gentleman, along...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor, who was widely regarded as the dean of American preaching and who played a key role...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The slow-moving, uneven economic recovery continues to elude Black workers and some economists predict that...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women are the only group that has not recovered the jobs they lost in the recession....
(Los Angeles Times) – Legendary blues musician B.B. King has been hospitalized, his representatives confirmed to the Los Angeles Times, but his daughter later said he...
(Los Angeles Times) – Legendary blues musician B.B. King has been hospitalized, his representatives confirmed to the Los Angeles Times, but his daughter later said he...
(Daily Mail) – Octavia Spencer shocked and angered hundreds of fans at a recent book signing, acting like an ‘ungrateful b****,’ say eyewitnesses who were so...
(Daily Mail) – Octavia Spencer shocked and angered hundreds of fans at a recent book signing, acting like an ‘ungrateful b****,’ say eyewitnesses who were so...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The next Ferguson City Council will face the daunting task of remaking much of...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The next Ferguson City Council will face the daunting task of remaking much of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Prisoners’ advocate groups hope President Barack Obama’s decision to grant clemency to nearly two dozen,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Prisoners’ advocate groups hope President Barack Obama’s decision to grant clemency to nearly two dozen,...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Clemson University put the school’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on probation for two years after the group held...
(NBC News) – Vijay Chokal-Ingam, the brother of writer and actress Mindy Kaling, has sparked controversy with his new book, in which he claims to have been...
Hack the Hood is expanding its program to five new locations this year to bring a unique tech training model where low-income youth of color learn...
Oakland, CA – Blame it on the two new video boards or the swift “willing and dealing” by General Manager Billy Bean this offseason. The A’s...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) –GMC’s 2015 Sierra 2500HD is a serious truck. We had the Denali Crew Cab 4X4 trim model...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Having seen how Black people are mistreated in country, not only historically but presently, I thought about that gloriously perfect...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Many children and families eagerly look forward to the end of the school year and the carefree days of...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The hardest work in the world is being out of work.” – Whitney M. Young, National Urban League President 1961-1971...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Anyone who has followed my columns knows that about this time of the year I normally write something about...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Although arbitration is often associated with labor unions, millions of consumers are also affected by it and don’t even know...
By Rev. Amos C. Brown NNPA Guest Columnist Easter was last Sunday, but Rev. Franklin Graham is still wiping egg off his face. In an...
