By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although Blacks have made tremendous improvement in holding elected office since passage of the 1965 Voting...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Washington lawmakers, local officials and activists prepare to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –According to a report released last week, 3.5 million K-12 public school students were suspended in the 2011-2012 school...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –According to a report released last week, 3.5 million K-12 public school students were suspended in the 2011-2012 school...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent LAST IN A SERIES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – “On May 15, 1995, two men ran up behind me as I approached my apartment...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent LAST IN A SERIES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – “On May 15, 1995, two men ran up behind me as I approached my apartment...
Raises Funds for Smithsonian’s National Museum Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper SiriusXM’s Joe Madison achieved the historic goal of a 52-hour marathon broadcast...
By Dr. Ro NNPA Columnist Whether you vowed to lose the weight – for the very last time, get your dream job, or harder yet,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The protest slogans addressing our latest struggle for justice and equity compel me to come up with a new...
By Matthew C. Whitaker NNPA Guest Columnist Black History Month is over, but we should move past the standardized foci and platitudes that mark our commemoration....
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist It is important for all people of African descent throughout the world to be ever conscious and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist One of my sheroes is Sojourner Truth. A brilliant but illiterate woman, she was a great orator and powerful...
By Lisa Gissendaner NNPA Guest Columnist Whitney Richards Callathes – a young person navigating the difficulties she confronts as a woman of color and an...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist While most of the nation has been buried under mountains of snow and slapped in the face by sub-freezing...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A new economic analysis by the New York Federal Reserve Bank found fewer foreclosures, bankruptcies and credit card delinquencies....
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters)—Namibia’s outgoing president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has won the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s $5 million African leadership prize, an award meant to recognize good governance...
Eric Werner, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months into full Republican control of Congress, GOP leaders are struggling to demonstrate they really are in...
David Sommerstein, NPR (NPR.com)—The first black American hockey player in NHL history is telling his story almost 30 years after he retired. Val James was...
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. this week announced that its 2014 Fuel Your School program generated $1 million in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, helping to fund 661...
Over 100 protesters shut down Emeryville Home Depot last Saturday, demanding, “We want answers!” about really happened in the killing of Yuvette Henderson by Emeryville police...
Victoria Dawson Hoff, ELLE MAGAZINE (Elle.com)—Thanks to a couple of probably coincidental sightings of Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio hanging out in the same vicinity, rumors have been...
Max Kutner, NEWSWEEK (Newsweek)—In 2013, hours before 16-year-old Adrian Alvaresz killed himself during lunchtime in the courtyard of his high school in Texas, he posted a...
Carolyn Said, SAN FRANCISCO GATE (SFGate.com)—Uber and Lyft, the yin and yang of ride-hailing services, seem to have bad news-good news disclosures in tandem. On...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United Nations is urging donors, organizations and countries fighting Ebola in West Africa not to give in to complacency as the...
Zoe Kleinman, BBC (BBC.com)—Furniture giant Ikea has unveiled a range of furniture fitted with wireless charging spots for mobile devices. The Home Smart range will initially...
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