By UC Berkeley News Many members of the UC Berkeley campus community have been lending their energy to the #BlackLivesMatter movement — in the streets, on...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Predatory lenders continue to target poor, Black and Latino communities, siphoning off $103 billion in...
(The Washington Post) – Before cop killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley ambushed two New York police officers last month, police said, he wrote on his Instagram: “I’m putting wings on pigs...
HOLBROOK MOHR and GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press The federal government’s failure to enforce the nation’s child protection laws is a “national disgrace” that leaves abused children...
CHARLTON DOKI, Associated Press RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — About 3,000 child soldiers will be gradually released from an armed group in...
(USA Today) – This has been a big year for Shonda Rhimes, on screen and off. The TV mega-producer, creator of popular dramas Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, became the...
Twenty-five hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote the classic book of military strategy, “The Art of War,” based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since...
(Politico) – A federal jury’s decision Monday to convict a former CIA officer for leaking top-secret information to a New York Times reporter was a...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – John King, Jr., a highly-respected educator from New York City, says that teachers saved his life...
By Janet Gilmore, UC Berkeley News The University of California Office of the President recently announced that all campuses in the UC system now have or...
Welcome to the millennial generation. These youthful citizens will learn the world of the future. But the current attention span of these individuals focuses on...
By Marquessa LaDawn NNPA Columnist In Atlanta (RHOA) We know the biggest villain is Nene Leakes, who is known for saying just what she feels,...
By Walter L Fields NNPA Columnist The fierce and aligned, if not coordinated, campaign to smear the motion picture “Selma” by suggesting it inaccurately portrays...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist If you haven’t seen the movie “Selma” yet please hurry up and do I and take your family and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Has Black America made significant progress politically, socially and economically over the past 50 years? This is not...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It has been deeply disturbing to hear and read suggestions that there is something inherently violent in Islam that...
Ernie Banks, who became the first Black player for the Chicago Cubs during his remarkable lifetime, died last Friday. He was 83. Banks, widely known...
Oakland soul singer Brenda Vaughn began planning a fundraiser benefit for her friend, singer and keyboardist Rosie Gaines, who has gone through periods of homelessness and...
WASHINGTON (Rap-Up.com)—The stars gathered in the nation’s capital for BET Honors 2015, which was taped at Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Saturday (Jan. 24)....
David Jackson and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The Secret Service said it recovered a 2-foot “quad copter” drone on the grounds of the White...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist There is something at work in both the appearance itself of Ana DuVernay’s “Selma” and in the controversy over...
Everyone has a story to tell. In the inspirational musical stage play “Lord Why Can’t I Do Right,” writer and producer Richard Torrence pens a story...
By Leland Kim and Laura Kurtzman, UCSF News UC San Francisco medical students helped sparked a national movement in December when they launched #whitecoats4blacklives to bring...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Husband Holds Grudges Dear Alma, My husband cannot let things go – he holds grudges for way longer than...
