By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Benjamin Crump, the lawyer who skyrocketed to national prominence by representing the family of Trayvon...
PHOENIX (USA Today) — An Arizona State University course called “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness” has gained national attention and landed the...
PHOENIX (USA Today) — An Arizona State University course called “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness” has gained national attention and landed the...
By Dr. Ro NNPA Columnist The much-maligned carbohydrate (an essential, macro nutrient) has been touted as the bane of your dietary existence for too long. Don’t...
By Walter L Fields NNPA Columnist In the course of one week we witnessed the burden of being young, gifted and Black. First, the Little...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “What the people want is very simple: they want an America as good as its promise.” – Texas Congresswoman...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist One of leading freedom fighters in the United States Congress is none other than the extraordinarily dynamic Maxine...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of a letter signed by 500 consumer advocates from all 50 states, an unprecedented push for reining...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The EB-5 Visa program has been in the news lately because of the alleged manipulation of the program by...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist This week in Atlanta, it was all about feelings, tears and jeers. Nene may be gone, but the ladies continue...
Hannah Nichols, MEDICAL NEWS TODAY (Medical News Today)—Coffee is the morning pick-me-up of millions – every day people drink coffee to increase wakefulness and improve...
Niraj Chokshi, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Washington and Oregon on Friday joined Colorado in defending its recreational marijuana law against a suit brought by...
Diane Depra, TECH TIMES (TechTimes.com)—A lot of people know John Urschel as an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens. What they don’t know is that...
Elizabeth Wagmeister, VARIETY MAGAZINE NEW YORK (VARIETY)—NBC will ease on down the road for its next live musical television event. “The Wiz” will take center stage...
Jennifer Mann, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—At a pro-police rally Saturday, a St. Louis police union representative called Department of Justice investigators “a...
Nora G. Hertel, THE WAUSAU DAILY HERALD WAUSAU, Wisc. (The Wausau Daily Herald)—A group of downtown Wausau church leaders is planning a Black Lives Matter...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist This winter the media’s been ablaze with stories about racist, homophobic and sexist slurs being hurled...
John Wagner, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley took a swipe at likely 2016 contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush...
Michael Corkery, THE NEW YORK TIMES MIAMI (The New York Times)—In September, Susan Rodolfi celebrated an unusual anniversary: five years of missed mortgage payments. She is...
Nekesa Mumbi Moody, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated the beauty, power and tenacity of black women while spreading her...
Margot Sanger-Katz, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—We know that living in a poor community makes you less likely to live a long life....
George Wright Society’s 18th biennial conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites—“Engagement, Education, and Expectations: The Future of Parks and Protected Areas” — is taking...
By Jorge Lerma Latinos make up 41 percent of Oakland’s student population and are still overlooked and poorly represented in the policy and decision-making apparatus...
Bay Area artist Mildred Howard and students from the West Contra Costa school district will showcase their work in the Richmond Art Center’s spring exhibitions, which...
Whether wailing with her multi-octave pipes and rhythmically pumping piano in nightclubs and at blues festivals, or every Sunday morning at Oakland’s Taylor Memorial United Methodist...