By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We have spent a lot of time trying to figure out this enigma about African development. We traveled to...
Michael Weissenstein and Bradley Klapper, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) — American hopes of opening an embassy in Havana before presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro...
Hayley Tsukayama, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—On this day in 2010, customers lined up around the block to get their hands on the iPad,...
Deena Prichep, NPR WASHINGTON (NPR.org)—Friday night marked the start of Passover, when Jews around the world tell the story of Exodus. That story, with its...
Target has proposed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its massive 2013 data breach, according to court documents filed in the U.S....
Jennifer Bendery and Dana Leibelson, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (Huffington Post)—When it comes to restoring the landmark Voting Rights Act, Republican lawmakers don’t seem to...
Alameda County will continue its push for greater community participation and government transparency on Saturday, April 25, at the Alameda County Apps Challenge 2015.1, a day-long...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Pity the poor, put-upon anti-gay bigots. Worried by recent steady march of federal court decisions advancing the right of...
Mugdha Variyar, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES GARISSA, Kenya (International Business Times)—After the Al-Shabaab attack on Kenya’s Garissa University left 148 students dead last Thursday, Twitterati have taken it upon...
FedEx recently broke ground on its planned 660,000 square-foot distribution center in Tracy. The huge facility is slated to open in August 2016 and FedEx...
Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY (USA Today)—A Tidal wave of exclusive releases have hit Jay Z’s streaming service, which relaunched with a star-studded event in New...
Jessica Leber, FASTCOMPANY CO.EXIST (FastCompany Co.EXIST)—Neil deGrasse Tyson would like the world to know that Charlie Sheen is a science nerd. I ask astrophysicist and...
In the Bay Area, Bike to Work Day will celebrate its 21st birthday on May 14 with a nine-county-wide party on wheels. On Bike to Work...
The Bay Area’s annual Cesar Chavez parade and festival will be held Saturday, April 18 in San Francisco. The parade will assemble at 10 a.m. and...
Krissah Thompson, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—Many of the men and women who have worked in the White House residence — serving presidents...
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY FERGUSON, Mo. (USA Today)—Voters in Ferguson, Mo., go to the polls Tuesday with an opportunity to transform the city’s political fabric...
NEW YORK (CNN)—High school senior Harold Ekeh didn’t just get into one Ivy League university. He was accepted into all eight. Now comes the really...
Margalit Fox, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times)—Phyllis R. Klotman, a film scholar who helped unearth lost treasures of African-American cinema and...
Carl Gibson, THINK PROGRESS BALTIMORE, Md. (ThinkProgress.com)—Starting this week, 25,000 households in Baltimore will suddenly lose their access to water for owing bills of $250...
By Post Staff The Richmond City Council has agreed to continue searching for federal and state dollars to fund an innovative transit system that could...
San Francisco State University President Leslie E. Wong announced Monday that the university will not use any its fund for students or employees to travel to...
Special to the Post Students don’t often get asked their opinion about school or life, but Oakland educator Felicia Bridges is giving all students with...
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Samuel L. Freedmen, THE NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO (The New York Times)— Just before the Passover festival, the same point in the calendar when Jesus gathered his closest...
