Landon Haaf, WFAA-TV via USA TODAY (USA Today)—The University of Oklahoma will hire a new vice president to handle diversity efforts in the wake of...
Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger via USA TODDAY JACKSON, Miss. (USA Today)—Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney...
Mike Morris, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION ATLANTA (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)—The U.S. Bankruptcy Court this week approved a plan that will let financially-strapped Morris Brown College emerge...
Juliet Linderman, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Teenagers awaiting trial on adult charges in Baltimore are being kept in solitary confinement for far too long —...
ED WHITE, Associated Press COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A teenager told authorities that her mother killed two siblings and forced her to put...
FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press MONTABAUR, Germany (AP) — Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his...
FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press MONTABAUR, Germany (AP) — Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his...
FERGUSON, Mo. (New York Times) — Addressing one of the Justice Department’s primary recommendations for the Police Department here, the new acting police chief said on...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Congressman Fauntroy is the only living individual in that famous photo of President Johnson signing the Civil Rights...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When it comes to the equality in America, a new report by the National Urban...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A majority of American parents believe their children will face a harsher coming-of-age than they did, according...
(The Guardian) – Philadelphia police shot black people at about twice the rate of their occurrence in the general population, according to a new federal study....
WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — The F.B.I. has made great strides since the Sept. 11 attacks and has prevented other catastrophic acts of terrorism, but it urgently...
JULIE PACE, Associated Press KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rather than keeping him at arm’s length, Hillary Rodham Clinton is embracing President Barack Obama...
by George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Barbara R. Arnwine does not back down from a fight. After the U.S. Supreme Court issued a...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Not surprisingly, the legalization of marijuana in Colorado has reduced pot arrests, but a newly released study says it...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (The Washington Post) — Police here say they have found no evidence to support claims in a Rolling Stone article that a University...
LORI HINNANT, Associated Press CLAUDE PARIS, Associated Press SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France (AP) — A Germanwings jet carrying 150 people from Barcelona to Duesseldorf slammed into a remote...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Allowing a white police officer to have a judge decide his fate for his role in a 137-bullet shooting...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Allowing a white police officer to have a judge decide his fate for his role in a 137-bullet shooting...
(The Grio) – George Zimmerman is speaking out for the first time since the Department of Justice cleared him of civil rights violations. The message...
(The Grio) – George Zimmerman is speaking out for the first time since the Department of Justice cleared him of civil rights violations. The message...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than their New...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than their New...
Michael Winter, USA TODAY (USA Today)—The 20-year-old black University of Virginia student bloodied by alcohol-control officers outside a bar last week was denied entry after a...